Title:  Multilingual Teacher

SDPC Teacher Salary Schedule

190 Days - 7.5 hours/day

 

This position is for th 26-27  school year and will start July 2026.

 

Reports To: Building Principal and Director of ML Programs

Job Purpose: To teach multilingual learners how to develop the English language skills and academic knowledge needed to succeed in school.

Qualifications-Required:

• South Carolina Teaching Certification in ESOL
• Excellent classroom management
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• Ability to speak English clearly and accurately
• Ability to create and implement lesson plans
• Ability to collaborate with classroom teachers in order to provide support to students
• Ability to motivate and engage students
• Ability to create and maintain a learning environment for students
• Ability to assess student learning
• Ability to work with small groups of students
• Ability to meet established deadlines
• Ability to maintain accurate records of student performance, interventions, and professional development activities.

Qualifications-Desired:

• ESOL Endorsement or willingness to complete the requirements for endorsement
• Experience teaching Multilingual Learners 
• Experience with co-teaching and co-planning
• Experience screening students using WIDA platform
• Familiarity with WIDA Proficiency levels
• Familiarity with WIDA English Language Development Standards
• Bilingual

 

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Creates and implements lesson plans
• Implements best practices and strategies for quality instruction
• Creates and maintains a classroom environment conducive for inclusive learning
• Works with classroom teacher to ensure the academic success of Multilingual Learner students
• Implements instructional and assessment accommodations as needed
• Uses approved communication and translation technology to communicate frequently with parents/guardians in their home language
• Provides ML instruction in co-taught classrooms and designated ML class settings
• Works with classroom teachers to support differentiated instruction
• Employs a variety of instructional techniques and teaching strategies to meet different aptitudes and interests of students
• Differentiates instruction according to students’ ELP level 
• Function as the campus level ML contact for all staff

 

Minimum Qualifications and Standards Required

 

Physical Requirements:

Must be physically able to operate a variety of machines and equipment, including a computer, basic office equipment, and telephone. Must be able to exert up to five pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.  Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for periods of time. Must be able to lift and/or carry weights of five to ten pounds.

 

Data Conception:

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

 

Interpersonal Communication:

Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information.  Includes receiving assignments and/or direction from supervisors.

 

Language Ability:

Requires the ability to read a variety of policies and procedures, computer manuals, and reference materials. Requires the ability to enter data into the computer and prepare records, correspondence, and reports with proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar, using all parts of speech.  Requires the ability to speak with and before others with poise, voice control, and confidence.

 

Intelligence:

Requires the ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagrammatic form, and to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations.  Requires the ability to make routine independent judgments in absence of supervision, and to acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation.  Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information and to understand and implement basic office machinery functions.

 

Manual Dexterity:

Requires the ability to handle a variety of items, equipment, control knobs, and switches.  Must have the ability to use one hand for twisting or turning motion while coordinating other hand with different activities.  Must have moderate levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

 

Verbal Aptitude:

Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, and to follow verbal and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with persons of varying educational backgrounds and in a variety of technical and/or professional languages.

 

Numerical Aptitude:

Requires the ability to add and subtract totals, to multiply and divide, to determine percentages and decimals, and to determine time.  Must be able to use practical applications of fractions, percentages, ratio and proportion.

 

Form/Spatial Aptitude:

Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape, and visually read various information.

 

Motor Coordination:

Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes using office machinery.

 

Color Discrimination:

Requires the ability to differentiate 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 when confronted with emergency situations or tight deadlines.

 

Physical Communication:

Requires the ability to talk and/or hear with talking defined as expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words and hearing being defined as perceiving nature of sounds by ear.

 

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

 

All candidates must be able to pass an extensive background investigation before being hired.

  

The School District of Pickens County does not discriminate for reasons of age, race, sex, handicap, national origin, or religion in its communications with students, employees, the community, applicants for employment, events, or for access to its services.