Specialized Bilingual Instructional Assistant (Farsi/Dari and/or Pashto)

The Lansing School District serves over 10,000 PreK-12 students across 25 school buildings in the increasingly diverse urban community of Lansing, MI. We are unique compared to other districts because of the wide variety of exciting and innovative educational options from which families and staff members can choose. All of Lansing School District’s team members are dedicated to our mission to provide an excellent education to all students in a safe and nurturing environment.

In pursuit of this mission, we are hiring a Specialized Bilingual Instructional Assistant for the Welcome Center. The Specialized Bilingual Instructional Assistant will perform duties and responsibilities related, but not limited to, providing differentiated ESL (English as a Second Language) instruction under the supervision and direction from a highly qualified certified teacher. The role of the Specialized Bilingual Instructional Assistant is to assist core content area and general education classroom teachers with instruction and non-instructional classroom related assignments. Instruction and assignments will be planned by the classroom teacher, who is responsible for their overall implementation and management. The main goal of this position is to provide appropriate academic, social, and emotional services to meet the needs of EL (English Learners) students at each Language Assistance Program (LAP) building district wide. The duties listed below are not all-inclusive, but indicate the most important responsibilities for this position.