Volunteer Opportunities
ESL Overall Pedagogist
Ministry area
ESL Support Team
Gifts / interests
Administration, Discipleship, English language, Leadership, Teaching, Tutoring
Time investment
0-3 hours / week
Purpose statement
This technical expert must have formal ESL training. They work with the ESL Program Lead to help us ever work toward a quality level of English instruction. We are not primarily a secular English school, however, we do want to provide excellent value to our students.
Summary of goals
- Ensure teachers have adequate training for our ESL teachers (this can be outsourced to PCA MNA if necessary or you could teach it). Our normal procedure for this is a weekend course over 12-14 hours.
- Assess / choose curriculum & get approval of ESL Ministry Leader (e.g. if we are going to change). Consider both print & electronic availability, including overseas.
- Get student feedback on value they receive from English instruction (could be in person or with an in-frequent survey).
- Observe & encourage existing teachers in their English pedagogy (key word is encourage).
- Substitute co-teaching to model different ways of teaching.
- Optional: suggest resources that Teachers can provide for their students, for
- English learning (interactive and free apps, Grammarly, etc.)
- Local & US cultural learning (e.g. Master’s, spring allergies, summer travel, etc.)
- Support & encourage teachers in English instructing. For example…
- Visiting in classroom
- Leveraging carefully crafted and timed student feedback forms. Work with School Leader to craft them.
- Try to increase student retention
- Ask ESL professors
Details
Prerequisites
Fill out volunteer application form (see "apply" in the main menu), Be approved as an in-person volunteer, Complete ESL teacher training (14 hour), Formal certification / degree in ESL/TEFL/TESOL/etc
Training
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