Guide to Program Coordinators
The ESL Program Coordinators take the main responsibility for building, developing, researching and improving the ESL program. One coordinator is in charge of the Primary ESL Program and the other is in charge of the Secondary ESL Program. They work under the management of the Head of the Academic Department and the CEO. In the following parts, their roles and responsibilities are described in detail.
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1. Curriculum Development, Monitoring, Evaluation and Review
2. Training and Orientation 3. Implementation progress management 4. Quality management 5. Research and development |
Curriculum Development, Monitoring, Evaluation and Review
Among various responsibilities of a program coordination, curriculum development, monitoring and evaluation lay at the core. More specifically, the main tasks include:
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Training and Orientation
ESL coordinators’ job description involves communicating with School Boards, Department Heads, and Teachers about the system-level orientation and direction. The goal of the training and orientation is that the Schools can implement the ESL program independently and effectively. In other words, the ESL Program leadership will be distributed to the Schools.
The training program delivered to campus-level leaders will include the following content:
The campus-level leaders will take active roles in transferring the knowledge gained after the training to their teachers.
ESL teachers will be trained on the following contents:
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Implementation progress management
The Academic Department will work with the School Boards and Department Heads to ensure the orientation, expectations, requirements and responsibilities are well understood. Subsequently, the Schools will develop their implementation plan and propose methods to keep track of the implementation progress. The Academic Department plays an advisory role at this stage and does not have authority or responsibility for approval. |
Quality management To ensure the success of the program as expected, the Program Department will play a leading role in controlling the ESL teaching and learning quality. Its main approach is indirect, working through the School Boards and/or Department Heads. The main activities of teaching quality management are as follows:
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Research and development
As “professional leaders”, the ESL program coordinators are responsible for continuously researching and finding updated pedagogical approaches and good practices. Research and Development Tasks of ESL program coordinators include:
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