Esl Aide

**Wheatley Education Campus is looking for a bilingual (English/Spanish) ESL Educational Aide to join the team for the 2024-2025 school year**

Housed in a state-of-the-art facility, Wheatley Education Campus is a school where every scholar is provided the highest quality of education possible in a warm, safe, nurturing, fun and academically challenging learning environment. We serve grades Prekindergarten(3) through 8th grade to children in both the Trinidad and broader Washington DC communities. At Wheatley, we are very passionate about educating the whole child and ensuring that our scholars reach their fullest social and academic potential. We have strong systems and structures in place that help foster collaboration throughout our school. Together, we uphold our motto: Excellence in Every Classroom

Our students need your expertise, passion and leaders.

We seek individuals who are passionate about transforming the DC school system and making a significant difference in the lives of public school students, parents, principals, teachers, and central office employees. DCPS serves more than 51,000 students in the nation's capital through the efforts of approximately 4,200 educators in 117 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).

**English Language Learners (ELL) Aides **provides support to students to help monitor their progress in their English language acquisition and the continued development of their home language. ELL 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 English Language Learners (ELL) 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

Pay: $16.00 - $23.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance

Grade levels:

- Elementary school

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

School type:

- Public school

**Language**:

- Spanish (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Washington, DC 20002: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person