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English Language Learner (ELL) Bilingual Associate JobID: 358

+ Position Type:

Support Staff/ Teacher Associate

+ Date Posted:

7/15/2025

+ Location:

Denison Elementary/Broadway Elementary

English Language Learner (ELL) Bilingual Associate

Position Goal

To provide motivation to students who require assistance learning the English language. Strive to help students improve their English speaking, reading and writing skills to the best of their ability.

Reports to

Building Administrators

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education &/or Experience

High School diploma.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

+ Work with the administration, teachers, staff, and students.

+ Act as a liaison between the public and the school and in so doing promote the general image of the total school system.

+ Work with ELL staff and their students.

+ Keep each student’s needs and progress confidential.

+ Become familiar with materials in the ELL rooms.

+ Work with individuals and small groups while the teacher works with other groups.

+ Supervise reading skills games, practice exercises, skills lessons on the computer, and testing sessions.

+ Be familiar with weekly lesson plans.

+ Help prepare materials and bulletin boards.

+ Copy materials on the copy machine.

+ Listen to students read orally and help them with expression.

+ Help check exercises and tests.

+ Supervise students at playtime and maintain a harmonious atmosphere on the playground.

+ Organize group games and activities.

+ Assume responsibility for play equipment.

+ Take part in inservice training program.

+ Direct movement of groups to and from the playground.

+ Administer, score, and record such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.

+ Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.

+ Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.

+ Operate and care for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.

+ Help students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.

+ Distribute and collect workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.

+ Guide independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.

+ Assist with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.

+ Keep bulletin boards and other classroom learning displays up to date.

+ Assist with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story telling.

+ Read to students, listen to students read, and participate in other forms of oral communication with students.

+ Assist students in the library or media center.

+ Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and make up work, as assigned by the teacher.

+ Assist with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines.

+ Assist with wash up and toilet routines.

+ Alert the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.

+ Serve as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.

+ Maintain the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.

Communication Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, lesson plans, and classroom materials. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to communicate with coworkers in a professional and courteous manner.

Analytical and Reasoning Skills

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

Ability to be flexible in coping with any situation that may arise.

Technology Skills

Must be able to operate a personal computer using standard office applications.

Must be able to use the computer to use email, complete required training, and enter time tracking information.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is occasionally loud.

Other Duties as Assigned

Will perform other duties as may be assigned by the Superintendent or designee necessary and appropriate to achievement of the program and/or District goals and objectives.

Terms of Employment

Salary and benefits to be determined by the Board of Education.

Evaluation

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with the provisions of the Board’s policy on evaluation of support services personnel.