ESL Instructor Responsibilities
ESL instructors teach English as a second language (ESL) . An ESL instructor generally instructs and teaches his students who belong to lower schools, high schools, colleges, and universities. He makes lesson programs that teach non-English speakers to read, write, and speak English. Performing classroom and community activities which help the students to learn English in real life situations, apart from arranging field trips are included under ESL instructor responsibilities. He helps the students with perfecting their English grammar, phonetics, and conversational abilities.
The ESL instructor in colleges helps the students develop their English reading and writing abilities. The students read the text books and write essays in English. This enhances their overall reading and writing skills. An ESL instructor also teaches in public and private colleges, vocational schools, adult educational programs, and community educational programs. He can work as a private tutor also and help the students learn English. He has the following key responsibilities:
- Enhancing the English reading, writing, and speaking skills of the students coming from different ages and backgrounds
- Comprehending spoken English
- Teaching English to non-English speaking foreign students who are immigrants and can speak their own languages like French, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, etc
- Teaching English as a foreign language in non-English speaking countries
- Attending extra training to understand the special needs of the child and adult learners
- Preparing his lessons for the students whose native languages and English speaking abilities vary
- Helping immigrants understand their new language
- Coming up with a curriculum that will help all the students focus on a specified field of English use like literacy, life skills, and vocational English
- Developing a syllabus that will help the students cover English from an overall facet
- Providing English instructions to individual students also
- Making the students participate in English exercises and teaching them phonetics in order to better their reading, speaking, and writing skills
- Communicating with the students in a language other than English, so that they won't face any difficulties in understanding what is being taught
- Clearing the doubts and queries that arise in the minds of the students
- Ordering text books that are simple to understand and will help the students taking computer lessons
- Rolling basic English studies with real life situations using different languages in different situations
- Identifying the differences affecting the abilities of different students to adjust with that particular kind of English speaking environment
- Holding quizzes and showing educational videos that will enhance the basic English skills of the students
- Working in different settingsntroducing cultural aspects to the students who are new to the English speaking countries
- Teaching all the English language skills to the students, so that they will be able to talk in effective English
- Teaching reduction of accent and other techniques to the students
- Taking and maintaining the attendance of students and ask the same to get a leave letter in case they remain absent
- Assessing the performance of various students and helping the weak ones
- Attending weekly staff meetings to discuss the students
- Working according to the directions given by the school administrators
- Evaluating the progress of the students
- Explaining things through the use of pictures, demonstrations, and gestures
- Motivating the students to come up with more and more number of doubts
- Updating his own computer and teaching skills in order to teach and provide satisfaction to all the students
- Requesting the students to submit their homework through emails
- Meeting the parents of the students in order to tell them how their children are performing
Qualifications
The candidate must have a bachelor's degree in teaching English as a second language. Some countries also require the candidate to have a master's degree in education or teaching.
Work Conditions
He has to work for more than 40 hours per week on an average. He usually has work for a 10 month school year. He may also have to work the whole year around.
Salary
The average salary of an ESL instructor is about USD 55,000 per annum.
Thus, the ESL instructor responsibilities include teaching the immigrated students speaking, writing, and reading English skills, so that they may be able to communicate in English as effectively as they are able to communicate in their own native language.
