ESL School Leader

ESL School Leader

https://team.internationallink.org/opportunity/esl-school-leader/ 

Role Details 

This information is not public, either because it is too detailed for the website role overview or because it has sensitive information not fit for a public webpage.

 

Instructions / suggested best practices for recurring tasks:

  • Pray continually. This is all impossible apart from God, but following His lead, unstoppable.

  • Humanly speaking, “the buck stops here for this ESL School (either Thursday am or Thursday pm; not both). The ESL School Leader oversees the areas of responsibility done by the roles in the School. If they are vacant or left undone, the School Leader takes ownership of them.

  • Provide vision / encouragement for volunteers in the School. For example, encourage them to love for Jesus sake even more than for the students’ benefit (Col 3:23).

  • Our ESL ministry goals are:

    • Prayer… as our first and main work. 

Pray for / lead / Train and coach in-class volunteers to effectively teach and interact with students.

Learn to coach the teachers.

Maintain & appropriately develop (not too much timeyour own ESL teaching skills.

Not School Leader’s job to be expert in Welcome Team things.

But SL does need to coach the WT Leader so that the WT keeps growing and has an “always learning” attitude.

 

School Leader needs to mobilize more people for the welcome team when there is a need.

 

It’s not the school leader’s role to personally coach the welcome team.

  1. Oversee Welcome Team

    1. Pray for / lead / dev / coaching Welcome Team Leader so that they think for their School Welcome Team’s ongoing development.

    2. Has a collaborative approach with the WTL on what WT roles & what weekly & optional tasks are used.

Question: “Can we have this new Assistant Teacher teach on his own?”


Answer: “I’m so glad you asked… I hope you don’t mind if I take a moment to explain why I’d like to wait before having him teach on his own… one of the classic leadership or even discipleship mistakes is to throw people in on their own too soon. I know there are all sorts of “well I just learned the hard way” or “on the job training” stories, but there’s a better way… Christ walked with his guys for months before sending them out 2 by 2. And leadership research by Blanchard has shown how delegation is actually best done as the last step after directing, coaching, & supporting, otherwise the person can become disillusioned. This new Assistant Teacher is getting signed up for the ESL teacher training by MNA but I don’t know if he’s made it in the Nov class or not. It doesn’t mean he can’t do anything, but I’d like to go about it more carefully and progressively for him and other new Assistant Teachers