Your Responsibility As an ESOL Teacher

• Be sure all new ESOL students are tested within the required testing window

• Maintain monitoring reports to correlate with the release of report cards

• Keep an open relationship with your staff so that they can come to you about any questions regarding ESOL policies

• Keep proper documentation of mainstream teacher communication

• Assist with the RTI process when needed for ESOL students

• Serve students properly according to their needs in either push-in or a monitoring setting and documenting why you chose this method

• Provide in-services (staff development)  to the staff at your school regarding what the levels of ESOL are and what students at each level are able to do at least once a year

• Be a resource for the staff to come to for ideas regarding accommodations

• Accurately test all ESOL students and correctly fulfill all testing duties required as well as  follow all testing instructions