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In your opinion, is it worth it to try my luck in obtaining an
K-12 job in Texas. Here is an example of my background.

One year of experience in teaching ELA in a private K-12 school.

A year and a half experience in teaching English Composition and
ESL at a Community College.

Two years experience in working as a subcontracted private
language instructor for corporate employees and spouses.

Have a master's degree in English, and have been deemed highly
qualified in Secondary ELA.

Working on a second master's degree in the Teaching of English
as a Second Language, which will include the completion of an
approved student teaching program.

Spanish proficiency is basic, but am willing to improve,
including taking more classes at a local community college in
the near future.

On 10/23/16, Paris wrote:
> Those programs do exist, but they don't hire for those
> types of positions. Those are veteran teachers whose
> assignments were a carry over from when ESL was a
> foreign language program, or it's teachers that couldn't
> handle a classroom anymore and are moved into support
> roles. The focus is hiring bilingual teachers for
> elementary ESL instruction. Either the district has enough
> to do immersion or they use shifting inclusion and
> resource. Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, they can
> be selective, they get the bulk of applicants that have
> exactly what they want and need.
>
> An L1 other than Spanish, that's like looking at a drop of
> water in the ocean, this is Texas. They would assign the
> student to the regular elementary classroom and provide
> them ESL support, because in Houston, Dallas, Austin,
> and San Antonio they can find a para or a sub who could
> service the student in the students L1, and if they
> couldn't they would assign a district or campus ESL
> teacher to inclusion in PEIMS and just muddle through it.
> If it's not Spanish it's not a significant population of
> students, one maybe two. That way the district can claim
> they are legally providing services they are required to
> even if it doesn't mean much.
>
> Most elementary schools in Texas don't have the
> resources, space, or staff to do ESL resource or inclusion,
> there are so many students it's not cost effective. You
> have to understand that in some campuses and districts
> half or more of the the student population is eligible for
> ESL services. There are campuses that will exit out
> students to monitoring without services, because there
> isn't another classroom to put an ESL teacher. There are
> schools (middle and high schools) with such high ESL
> populations that teachers essentially co-teach and
> instead of a teacher having a classroom there is a work
> room with the special education and language support
> teachers where they have a desk and they move between
> classrooms all day.
>
> On 10/23/16, Delaware Duke wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> Are you saying there are no pure ESL programs at the
>> elementary level, as its all being lumped together with
>> Bilingual programs? What about ELLs whose L1 isn't
> Spanish?
>> In what classroom do they get placed?
>>

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