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TEACHER JOB DESCRIPTION
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Adult Literacy Teacher
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Literacy teachers are responsible for working with a co-teacher to:
- Co-teach a class of 25 adults
- Design lessons using authentic materials that emphasize topics
of adult interest, parenting issues, and family literacy activities
- Supervise tutors, including: assigning them to groups of learners,
giving them specific tasks to carry out in working with groups,
monitor their performance, provide feedback and suggest additional
strategies they can use in working with learners
- Participate in cross-disciplinary training with other ILP staff,
ELC instructional staff, and community agencies
- Participate in ILP family literacy seminar each week, lead discussions
during teacher-tutor sharing, and occasionally lead seminar
- Complete demographic information on each learner on the first
day they enroll
- Complete intake interviews with new learners within 2 weeks
of their enrollment
- Maintain all records on learners, including ongoing files of
their work
- At the end of each cycle, move selected data from classroom
files into learner' permanent files
- Submit updated class lists to the director every other Thursday
- Call learners after they have missed 2 days of class to inquire
about well-being and to encourage their attendance
- Assess learners' progress in a variety of ways, including: leading
learners to self-assess their progress, conducting running records
at the beginning and end of a cycle, holistically scoring writing
samples at the beginning and end of a cycle, routinely monitoring
learners' understanding of what they have read by reviewing oral
and written summaries of readings
- Participate in ILP/ELC weekly staff meetings, including sharing
lessons that have worked or have not worked well, providing and
receiving feedback from other staff on additional strategies and
materials
- Share in responsibility for planning and coordinating weekly
Parent and Child Activity events in conjunction with other ILP
staff and ELC instructional staff
- Participate in project research activities. For the Early Childhood
Home/School Portfolio Project, teachers are required to: introduce
home literacy portfolios and strategies for constructing such
portfolios, ask parents to share their home literacy portfolios
on a weekly basis, keep a journal detailing all discussion in
the class surrounding home literacy portfolios, date-stamp literacy
portfolio artifacts as they are shared in class, photocopy representative
artifacts on a routine basis. Other research activities will be
determined by staff over the course of the year
- Monitor learners and tutors in the computer lab to insure that
learners are saving their work onto individual floppy disks, that
computers are turned on and off properly, and that the lab is
left neat after the class has left
- Supervise learners and tutors in borrowing and returning library
books to make sure that cards are filled out properly, that books
are returned to the appropriate location, and that the library
is left neat after the class has left
- Participate in planning for Awards Ceremony, including submitting
class lists two weeks before the ceremony, helping learners to
identify a speaker and to write a class speech, signing certificates,
and helping at the ceremony as needed
- In spring, participate in the publication of the ILP anthology,
including assisting each learner in selecting, revising, and editing
a submission; submitting publication-ready samples; participating
with other teachers in final editing and layout
- Work for one full week after the spring cycle to complete files
and assessments for individual learners and for the class, to
identify those lessons that worked especially well and should
be added to a "model lesson" file, and to participate in other
wrap-up activities as needed
- For those adult literacy teachers who are serving in Even Start
classrooms, conducting weekly home visits with families, including
planning and sharing literacy activities that parents and children
can engage in an home, monitoring home literacy interactions,
and providing referrals to community service agencies as needed
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Children's Classroom Teacher
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Under the direction of the children's program coordinator, the children's program teachers are responsible for:
- Leading instruction and care for children enrolled in children's
program
- Designing lessons that emphasize children's language and literacy
development
- Supervising tutors, including: assigning them to groups of children,
giving them specific tasks to carry out in working with groups,
monitoring their performance, providing feedback and suggesting
additional strategies they can use in working with children
- Participating in cross-disciplinary training with other ILP
staff, ELC instructional staff, and community agencies
- Participating in ILP family literacy seminar each week, leading
discussions during teacher-tutor sharing, and occasionally leading
seminar
- Working with adult literacy teachers to assist in planning parent-child
literacy activities to be shared during home visits
- Completing registration information on each child on the first
day s/he enrolls
- Submitting class lists to the director every other Thursday
- Monitoring and documenting children's activities and progress
through individual portfolios
- Participating in weekly ILP/ELC staff meetings
- Sharing in responsibility for planning and coordinating weekly
Parent and Child Activity events in conjunction with other ILP
staff and ELC instructional staff
- Participating in project research activities as determined by
staff over the course of the year
- Offering at least 1 parent-teacher conference with each parent
each cycle
- Supervising children and tutors in borrowing and returning library
books to make sure that cards are filled out properly, that books
are returned to the appropriate location, and that the library
is left neat after the class has left
- Participating in planning for Awards Ceremony, including submitting
class lists two weeks before the ceremony, identifying and teaching
the children songs that they will sing, and caring for children
during the ceremony
- In spring, participating in the publication of the ILP anthology,
including assisting each child in selecting, revising, and editing
a submission; submitting publication-ready samples; participating
with other teachers in final editing and layout
- Working for one full week in after the spring cycle to complete
files and assessments for individual children and for the class,
to identify those lessons that worked especially well and should
be added to a "model lesson" file, and to participate in other
wrap-up activities as needed
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