English as a Second Language (ESL) Teacher Career Path in 2024

English as a Second Language (ESL) Teacher Career Overview

Job Description:
  • Teach academic, social, and life skills to preschool-aged students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities.
  • Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.

English as a Second Language (ESL) Teacher U.S. Salary in 2024

Annual Median Salary: $62,240
Hourly Median Wage: N/A

Data sourced from O*NET Online, provided by the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics wage estimates.

Projected Job Openings for English as a Second Language (ESL) Teachers by 2031

Projected Growth Rate in Job Openings by 2031: 8%

Data sourced from CareerOneStop, provided by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Typical Tasks for English as a Second Language (ESL) Teachers

  • Communicate nonverbally with children to provide them with comfort, encouragement, or positive reinforcement.

  • Employ special educational strategies or techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, or memory.

  • Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification or positive reinforcement.

Technologies and Skills Used by English as a Second Language (ESL) Teachers

Device drivers or system software

  • Screen magnification software
  • Screen reader software

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Spreadsheet software

  • Microsoft Excel

Basic Skills

  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • Talking to others

Problem Solving

  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

  • Looking for ways to help people
  • Understanding people's reactions

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