QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree or above. Valid South Carolina teacher’s certificate. ESOL add-on endorsement or extensive course work in ESOL is preferred. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.JOB DUTIES:Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.Assists the ESOL teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on an understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by teacher.Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the ESOL teacher.Guides students with group activities such as drill work, reading aloud, and conversing.Supervises testing, homework and make-up work, as assigned by the classroom teacher.Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.Guides students to increase their oral and written communication skills.Alerts the principal to any problem or special information about an individual student.Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the ESOL teacher.Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.Participates in in-service training programs, as assigned.Utilizes effective classroom management strategies to create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and developmentally appropriate for students.Strives to implement by instruction and action the District’s philosophy of education and instructional goals and objectives.Takes all the necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials and facilities.Maintains accurate, complete and correct records as required by law, District policy, and administrative regulation.Performs all other duties and responsibilities as assigned.STANDARDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONSPhysical Requirements: Requires sedentary work that involves walking or standing some of the time and involves exerting up to 10 pounds of force on a recurring basis or routine keyboard operations. Requires mobility.Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.Interpersonal Communications: Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving assignments and/or directions to subordinates and receiving assignments and/or direction from supervisor.Language Ability: Requires ability to read a variety of laws, policies and procedures, technical and professional studies, reference books and publications, etc. Requires the ability to prepare performance appraisals, policies, strategic plans, complex reports, schedules, correspondence, etc. with proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar, using all parts of speech. Requires the ability to speak with and before others with poise, voice control and confidence.Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical, schedule or diagrammatic form; to deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Requires the ability to apply influence systems in managing a diverse staff; to learn and understand complex principles and techniques; to make independent judgments in absence of supervision; to acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation. Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information.Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow and give verbal and written instructions; to counsel and teach employees; to teach, discipline and counsel students. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with persons of varying educational backgrounds and in a variety of technical and/or professional languages including education administration, curriculum development, budgeting, personnel, building maintenance, grant administration, public relations, etc.Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to add and subtract totals, to multiply and divide, to utilize mathematical formulas, to determine percentages and decimals and to determine time. Must be able to use practical applications of algebra and statistics.Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape, and visually read various information.Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes using office machinery; to operate motor vehicles.Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items, keyboards, office equipment, control knobs, buttons, switches, catches, etc. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate colors and shades of color.Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress when confronted with emergency situations, volatile situations or tight deadlines. Worker may be subject to danger or risk to a slight degree and to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.Physical Communications: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words; hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear).TERMS: 190 days. Salary and work year to be established by the Board.EVALUATION: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with Sumter School District Board Policy.DISCLAIMER: This job description is not an employment agreement or contract. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so assigned.
