Part Time ESL Lead Teacher

ESL Lead Teacher

Job Title

ESL Lead Teacher (Part-time)

Location: Thomasville Middle School, Thomasville, North Carolina

Position Overview

Reporting to the school principal and ESL director, the ESL Lead Teacher will provide instructional leadership, direction, and support within the ESL (English as a Second Language) program. This role combines direct student instruction with coaching, mentorship, and program coordination to enhance services for Multilingual Learners (MLs).

Key Responsibilities

Instruction & Student Support

• Identify students with limited English proficiency through testing, observational data, registration info, and staff referrals, following district and state regulations.
  
  
• Assess students’ academic and language needs using standardized tests and diagnostic tools.
  
  
• Develop and implement individualized ML instructional plans, selecting appropriate curriculum and materials to meet each student’s needs.
  
  
• Provide both small-group and individualized instruction to facilitate English proficiency and integration into the school’s broader academic program.
  
  
• Monitor and document students’ academic progress; prepare individualized progress reports.
  
  
• Establish a supportive, inclusive environment that nurtures self-esteem, ethnic pride, and social skills.
  
  

Program Leadership & Mentorship

• Coach and mentor other ESL and general education teachers in effective strategies for supporting MLs, including co-teaching, sheltered instruction, and differentiated content delivery.
  
  
• Observe classroom practices, offer feedback, and model effective ESL instructional techniques.
  
  
• Lead or assist in program planning, including curriculum coordination, instructional resource selection, and compliance with ESL regulations.
  
  
• Oversee staff development initiatives: plan and deliver training, workshops, or professional learning opportunities focused on ML instruction.
  
  

Administrative & Collaborative Duties

• Coordinate ESL assessments (e.g., WIDA Screener, ACCESS) and support faculty with accommodations and compliance.
  
  
• Analyze program data and assessment outcomes to monitor effectiveness and inform instructional decisions.
  
  
• Participate in relevant committees, such as School Improvement Teams and MTSS

Qualifications & Skills

• Valid North Carolina teaching license with ESL endorsement (or eligibility for endorsement).
  
  
• Bachelor’s degree in Education, TESOL, or related field; Master’s preferred.
  
  
• Strong experience in ESL instruction and proven leadership or mentorship in teaching (preferred).
  
  
• Deep knowledge of ML instructional strategies, language acquisition theory, and state/federal ESL policy.
  
  
• Excellent communication, organizational, and team collaboration skills.
  
  
• Ability to analyze data, develop instructional plans, and provide constructive coaching.

ADDITIONAL JOB FUNCTIONS
 

Performs other related work as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS OR STANDARDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
 

Physical Requirements: Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, typewriters, calculators, pencils, scissors, and equipment for children with special needs, etc. Must be able to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Due to amount of time spent standing and/or walking, physical requirements are consistent with those for Light Work.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments and/or directions from superiors.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials, etc., using prescribed format.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in variety of technical or professional languages including medical, legal and counseling terminology.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of descriptive statistics, statistical inference and statistical theory.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between 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 and when confronted with emergency situations.

Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear). Must be able to communicate via telephone.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
 

Ability to constantly monitor the safety and well-being of students, particularly when student is participating in an inclusive activity.

Ability to motivate students.

Ability to maintain a clean and orderly environment. Ability to perform general clerical duties.

Ability to maintain order and discipline in a classroom. Ability to operate common office machines.

Ability to maintain basic files and records.

Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitates by work assignments.

DISCLAIMER
 

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.