Ilsc Esl Teacher, Residential Juniors Program at Ubc

**ROLE**: ESL Teacher, Residential Juniors Program at UBC
**PROGRAM**: ILSC Summer Juniors Residential Program at UBC

**REPORTS TO**: Academic Manager, Residential Juniors Program at UBC
**DURATION OF PROGRAM**: 4-6 weeks, June 29 to August 10, 2025 (Pre-Training between June 20-June 27, 2025)

ILSC Vancouver Juniors Residential Program at UBC is seeking qualified and dynamic ESL Teachers available to work part-time, in a friendly, fast-paced environment.

Our students are ages 10-17. Teachers prepare lessons designed to increase students’ language skills, their accuracy and fluency, appropriate to a broad range of situations and needs, and in accordance with the ILSC Curriculum Guidelines and Course Outlines. High quality delivery is expected. This is a part-time, fixed-term position consisting of 15 instructional hours per week.

The schedule timeline and hourly requirements are as follows:

- Pre-program staff training will take place between June 20, 2025, to June 27, 2025
- Your weekly work schedule will consist of five mornings per week, Monday-Friday, from 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
- Remuneration is $31.40 - $32.44 per hour, plus a 25% prep-time premium

**Duties and Responsibilities**

Teachers prepare lessons designed to increase students’ language skills, their accuracy and fluency, appropriate to a broad range of situations and needs, and in accordance with the ILSC Curriculum Guidelines and Course Outlines. High quality delivery is expected.

**Responsibilities include, but are not limited to**:

- Teaching 15 hours of English lessons over a five-day week (Monday - Friday mornings from 9:00 AM-12:00 PM)
- Eliciting students’ interests and language needs in an organized way
- Preparing lessons using recommended resource materials (or substitutes own resources in consultation with the Academic Manager)
- Creating an atmosphere that encourages all students equally in self-expression, self-reflection, cooperation and leadership
- Evaluating student progress and completing academic records as required by the Academic Manager (i.e., class records of attendance, student reports and progress reports)
- Co-operating with the Academic Manager and on occasions with third party agents, colleagues from language agencies, and accrediting Inspectors in the observation and evaluation of lessons
- Assisting with the welcome, induction and testing of students on the first morning of class
- Attending staff meetings for briefing and discussion of academic and welfare matters

The teacher is expected to use a range of modern and traditional language learning techniques and methodology including the following:

- Building students’ vocabulary acquisition for formal and informal situations e.g. dialogues, discussion, role-plays, outings
- Introducing, practicing and reviewing language structures (grammar) using a communicative approach
- Developing communication strategies such as initiating, maintaining, closing of verbal interactions across a wide spectrum of situations drawn from daily life
- Increasing communicative skills through appropriate question and answer techniques, presentations, decision-making, offering feedback to others, analyzing and evaluating situations, negotiating, debating, etc.
- Shaping pronunciation and speech production towards natural English
- Supporting and encouraging students to self-correct
- Evaluating and offering feedback to the students in ways that increase their self-confidence in using English
- Incorporating social media and planning age-appropriate language learning activities to engage and motivate students
- Other duties as assigned by the Academics Manager

**Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Attributes**:
All ESL teachers at the ILSC Juniors Residential Program at UBC must possess the following qualifications:

- A completed Bachelor’s degree
- A completed TESL certificate recognized by TESL Canada (or equivalent, e.g. CELTA)
- Experience teaching and working with students aged 10-17 years old

**Additional Requirements of the Job**
- This position requires union membership
- Completion of Criminal Record Police Check
- Medical records and immunization reports may be required

**Contact Information**

**About ELS, ILSC & Greystone College**

A world leader in language education & vocational training, ILSC Education Group, which opened its first language school in Vancouver, Canada in 1991 and Greystone College in 2002, offers life-changing educational experiences in Canada, Australia, and India, some of the world’s most attractive and popular English-speaking work and study destinations. Since opening its first school in Vancouver, BC, Canada, ILSC has become a world leader in language and career training and has grown to include 8 incredible locations around the world, in Vancouver, Toronto and Montréal, Canada; New Delhi, India; and Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, Australia.

In early 2022, ILSC Education Group joined forces with ELS Education Services, bri