Multilingual Learner

1 week ago


Washington, United States DC Public Schools Full time

_Our students need your expertise, passion and leadership._

We are looking for highly motivated and skilled Multilingual Learner (MSL/ESL) Educational Aide to join our team at DC Public Schools (DCPS). We seek individuals who are passionate about transforming the DC school system and making a significant difference in the lives of our students, families, and community.

DCPS serves more than 51,000 students in the nation's capital through the efforts of approximately 4,000 educators in 116 schools. As part of a comprehensive reform effort to become the preeminent urban school system in America, DCPS intends to have the highest-performing, best paid, most satisfied, and most honored educator force in the nation and a distinctive central office staff whose work supports and drives instructional excellence and significant achievement gains for DCPS students.

On a daily basis, the educational aide performs a variety of duties that involve working with students individually and in small groups, reinforcing daily lessons, motivating learning, assessing progress, assisting with classroom management, and other similar duties as assigned.

Position Overview

The Educational Aide is located in all public schools within the DCPS system. Situated at the center of national government, the goal of DPCS is to provide students with a quality education that prepares them to become future leaders, productive citizens, and individuals who are engaged in the life of the community. The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) has students with disabilities that require the services and supports of a variety of Educational Aides pursuant to their Individual Education Plan (IEP).
- **Multilingual Learners (MLL) Aides **provides support to students to help monitor their progress in their language acquisition and the continued development of their home language. MLL Aide assists teaching staff in implementing research-based practices including data collection, how to support each stage of language acquisition, the classroom set-up of culturally and linguistically responsive environments, and language modeling and bridging. The MLL Aide will receive assignments from the Academic Programs Team in the OTL - Language Acquisition Division and the Division of Early Childhood Education.
- **Responsibilities**_
- Collaborate in the implementation of the daily lesson plans by performing tasks that reinforce learning
- Assist the classroom teacher in regularly observing students and taking anecdotal notes to inform planning, arrangement of small groups, and assessments
- Help maintain accurate student records
- Work closely with students who may require individual or close attention
- Assist the teacher with the development of individualized programs
- Read to students, listen to and write down their dictations, and model language by conversing with students throughout the day
- Work with groups of students engaged in drawing, writing, centers, or similar work while the teacher is otherwise occupied
- Assist in the administration of the instructional plan for students with disabilities
- Address multiple intelligences of each student through lesson plans and materials
- Infuse culturally relevant, anti-bias materials and pedagogical strategies
- Maintain on-going communication with families
- Implement a variety of instructional groupings of students (small group and cooperative learning)Perform other related duties as assigned
- **Qualifications**_
- A high school diploma and an official score report documenting a passing ParaPro examination score (461 or higher); or
- Transcripts confirming completion of 48 college credit hours; or
- Transcripts confirming a conferred Associate’s degree or higher
- Experience working with students with disabilities is preferred for Special Education Aides
- Proficiency in English and Spanish required for English Language Learner Aides
- Commitment to Equity_: Passionate about closing the achievement gap and ensuring that every child, regardless of background or circumstance, receives an excellent education.
- Leadership_: Coaches, mentors, and challenges others to excel despite obstacles and challenging situations.
- Focus on Data-Driven Results_: Relentlessly pursues the improvement of central office performance and school leadership, instruction, and operations, and is driven by a desire to produce quantifiable student achievement gains.
- Innovative Problem-Solving_: Approaches work with a sense of possibility and sees challenges as opportunities for creative problem solving; takes initiative to explore issues and find potential innovative solutions.

Pay: $17.45 - $30.35 per hour

Expected hours: 8 per week

**Benefits**:

- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance

Grade levels:

- Elementary school
- High school
- Middle sch



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