ELL Teacher - Primary School - Hangzhou

BASIS International School Hangzhou is seeking qualified candidates for an ELL Teacher - Primary School for the 2024-2025 school year!

Are you an experienced educator looking to grow your career with an established and high-achieving school network? Apply now for our ELL Teacher position with BASIS International School Hangzhou.  

Why BASIS International Schools?     

BASIS International & Bilingual Schools is a rapidly growing network of schools in China with a tradition of academic excellence and rigor. Our first school opened in Shenzhen in 2015 and since then we have opened schools in Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Chengdu and Wuhan, with two new schools coming in Shenzhen in 2024.     

Our graduates have been accepted into some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the world, including Princeton, Oxford, Cornell, Imperial College London, MIT, University of Toronto, Johns Hopkins, and many more—with an overall acceptance of nearly 100% to Top 50 U.S. universities.  

As an ELL Teacher you will work with both teachers and students to support academic and social English language development. When working with teachers you will provide instructional expertise on the integration of ELL best practices into everyday classroom environments. You will use English Language Proficiency assessments and progress monitoring tools to develop, implement and monitor comprehensive ELL programs. Programs involve push in/pull out, small group, and individual student support.

Job responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Advocate for the academic and personal/social needs of English Language Learners.
• Monitor the academic progress for all ELL students
• Identify students who require intensive English Language support and determine the level and nature of services for each student.
• Support classroom teachers in implementing ELL instructional best practices that support the rigor of the BASIS Curriculum.
• Provide intervention and support within the classroom (especially Literacy and STEM related courses)
• Plan and collaborate with teachers to design and implement engaging cross-curricular instruction that leads to English language fluency in all content areas.
• Attend weekly planning sessions with classroom teachers to support lesson planning, projects, and small group instruction. Suggest accommodations and appropriate lesson structures to support ELL students.
• Conduct, organize, and analyze on-going assessments of student performance using multiple assessment tools.
• Assist and support the development of a successful learning environment for ELL students in each classroom by providing school-wide training around language acquisition, planning needs and learning goals, differentiated instruction, and classroom practices that support student success.
• Model best teaching practices for teachers with the goal of developing their capacity to support specialized instruction, differentiation, and classroom accommodations to support ELL students.
• Assist the development of curriculum to support ELL learners and facilitate their access to the world-class education offered by BASIS International Schools.
• Meet regularly with School Directors and other professionals as needed to discuss student progress and the performance of ELLs.
• Attend parent-teacher conferences as needed in support of ELLs.