Esl Instructor

**LINC Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada**

LNC classes assist newcomers in learning to speak English as a second language. Our qualified instructors will support students in learning to read, write, listen, and speak in English. Bredin offers online classes (virtual instruction) with the potential for blended in-person courses.
- **Responsibilities**:

- Create a learning environment with classroom management strategies that encourages student involvement
- Interact in a friendly and patient manner with students from different cultural backgrounds, students of all levels of language proficiency, and students who may have disabilities
- Communicate learning outcomes at the beginning of each course
- Tutor all language skills areas while teaching grammar in an easy-to-understand way
- Evaluate and grade assignments and provide constructive and timely feedback
- Respond to student writing both holistically and analytically
- Employ culturally competent and inclusive teaching methodologies throughout the program
- Documenting student attendance, participation, and progress
- Present standard English language clearly and serve as a linguistic model for student
- Establish and maintain rapport, credibility, and working relationships with those contacted in the course of work and be a role model for students

**Qualifications**:

- Experience with the CCLB curriculum and portfolio-based language assessment.
- Post-secondary education -preferred - language instruction.
- A minimum of 2 years experience in ESL teaching and or TESL Canadian-recognized certification with IELTS training is considered an asset
- Experience with ESL curriculum and lessons.
- Excellent classroom management and teaching skills online and in person.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills online and in person
- Experience in delivering program components to culturally diverse learners
- Present standard English language clearly and serve as a linguistic model for students.
- Communicate effectively with students by articulating clearly, selecting vocabulary, and assessing comprehension by varying methods
- Able to work independently and in a multicultural collaborative team setting
- Ability to organize, multi-task, prioritize work, and meet deadlines with a high degree of personal initiative through online learning.
- Understanding of adult learning principles and the ability to incorporate them in a group setting.
- Must be able to handle confidential information in an ethical and professional manner

You will need to be a relationship builder and teacher who thrives on supporting the needs of newcomers. You aim to become a trusted advisor through consistent support and a genuine desire to understand where our students are, where they came from, and where they are going.
- Bredin values the diversity of the people it hires and serves. Inclusion to us means fostering a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated, respected, and responded to in ways that fully develop and utilize each person’s talents and strengths. This commitment extends to the hiring process and throughout employment._

To learn more about Bredin, please visit us at _**bredin.ca**_

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Red Deer, AB T4N 6H2: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

**Experience**:

- teaching: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Red Deer, AB T4N 6H2

Application deadline: 2024-09-10
Expected start date: 2024-09-16