Teaching English to newcomers or non-English speaking residents, in community colleges, can be a nice way of giving back to the community as well earning some part time income. In a country, such as the United States, where there is a high immigration rate, there is always a need for English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers. Whether, legal or illegal, immigrants can enroll in community colleges to learn English. In some states, it is free of charge; in others, it has a fee. In many states, you can teach ESL in community colleges if you have a Bachelor's degree. If you are looking to teach English to adults in community colleges, you will need a well written resume.
Below can provide a starting point for duties and responsibilities of an ESL teacher.
ESL Adjunct
Provides instructions to teach English, for students who are speakers of other languages.
Teaches beginner to intermediate or intermediate to advance level of English skills in order to improve workplace, and community setting participation of immigrants
Prepares for class, instructs, tests, and keeps record/data collection for
grant reporting.
Develops and delivers lesson plans, utilizes a broad range of appropriate
differentiated techniques and strategies addressing all aspects of
communication that develops each student’s ability to read, write and listen in
content areas at levels that ensure learners meet or exceed learning targets.
Administers academic and language
assessments for the purpose of evaluating student’s progress in meeting
academic learning targets and progress in language acquisition.
Maintains and
completes accurate records of students’ progress and evidence of growth.
Administers placement tests based on
testing guidelines of ( the state you want to teach).
Completes proper paperwork to the
administration.
Verifies students are enrolled into the appropriate level by
conducting speaking tests and taking writing samples.
Collaborates with the
Instructional Designers, and tests the development of learning activities,
training materials, facilitator guides, lesson plans, and class schedules.
After a couple decides to split, separate or divorce, the custody battles become extremely painful even unbearable. Previously, it was posted that a former couple, Mr. Jones and Ms. Jones, was ordered to communicate -about their children- solely using Our Family Wizard (OFW) app. It was shared that Mr. Jones sent a message via OFW to inform Ms. Jones that someone from OFW would contact her and walk her through the process for her to have access. We explored some of the possible reasons in that post to make sense of why Mr. Jones had had chosen to message Ms. Jones on an app in which she didn't have access to. The message about OFW access was sent to Ms. Jones on 1 November, 2021. It was concluded that Mr. Jones wanted to comply with court decision and prevent further accusations of harassment by Ms. Jones however, OFW was the wrong platform to use for this particular message (To read the full post you can click on the link below: https://historicalmenwomenplaces.blogspot.com/2025/10/communication-via-ofw-1-best-way-to.html).
The court adjourned on 28 October 2021 as stated on the previous post. The email below is a message sent by Mr. Jones to Ms. Jones two days after the first message was sent on OFW. Mr. Jones sent this new message to Ms. Jones' personal email account. Let's go over the email starting with the format. Mr. Jones was guided by
his lawyer of the time to use this template for communication before the court reached a
decision and ordered both parties to use the OFW app.
The first part is the time stamp from the email and then Mr. Jones typed the dates of his visit with his children.
He mistyped the 29 Oct as 9 Oct. We know it is mistyped because he corrected it in the next section.
On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 10:54 AM Mr. Jones wrote:
9 OCT Friday – 02 Tuesday NOV 21
In the next section Mr. Jones states,
SOMETHING POSITIVE THAT HAPPENED WHILE THE CHILDREN WERE WITH ME
Friday,
29 October 2021 met children at post office completed and submitted
passport renewal applications ensuring son and daughter's expired
passports were submitted for renewal, We were very happy and excited to
see each other
Saturday
30 October 2021, did Trunk or Treat events, took pictures, and ate a
lot of candy in Aberdeen, Bel Air and Havre De Grace which featured a
Hay ride, son and daughter had a great time and received a lot of candy.
Sunday
and Monday we played Singles and team matches Ping Pong in the Aberdeen
Proving Ground guest house and … umm daughter beat daddy in Ping pong. Son got a haircut he really likes and is very happy with.
This is an indication of a good communication when this much detail is shared with the other parent and also is a sign of good co-parenting. However, we know that this former couple has a strained relationship. We know this because they had been ordered to use a court app to communicate with each other.
That said, the last two brief paragraphs focus on the pleasant activities they participated together but the first paragraph seems to be out place. Mr. Jones states that they met in a post office and completed an application for their children's passports. Children's passports had been expired since 2018 and in 2019 Mr. Jones left the country with children's passports. He continuously refused to renew children's passport until 29 Oct 2021 court order. Clearly, the first statement is not for Ms. Jones because she was in the post office with them. Mr. Jones was documenting that he complied with the court order. However, since the passports were already submitted, this statement serves no purpose.
ORDERED that Mr. Jones shall provide Ms. Jones with the children’s passports.
Both parties shall fully cooperate in renewing the children’s passports and Ms. Jones shall
retain possession of the children’s passports when the children are not otherwise traveling
The next section is generic about medical issues. Mr. Jones mentions there was a medicine son had to take and took it successfully.
MEDICAL ISSUES
No medical issues,
Our son took all of his prescribed medication (Ferrous Sulfate (Iron Supplement).
The last dose taken at 0800 hours prior to breakfast on 02 Tuesday 2021
The next section points out to an effort by Mr. Y to document his claim of isolation,
SCHOOL RELATED ISSUES
N/A, November 01 – 02 - Monday and Tuesday – Parent Teacher conferences, Please
ensure I am added to the emergency School contact list – Mr. Jones, CMR ...., Tel ..., email: ...
His reference to parent-teacher conferences show that he was informed of the conferences and manifest some interest in children's schooling. Since he was in town, these specific days, he could have attended the parent-teacher conferences. There is no mention of his attendance in this section.
Mr. Jones adds that his wish to be added to the emergency school contact list. Emergency lists are consist of trusted family and friends and cannot be the parents. This statement makes very little to no sense.
In the next sections there is not anything that stands out.
REGULARLY SCHEDULED WEEKLY ACTIVITIES:
N/A
SIBLING/PEER RELATIONSHIPS
No change in relationships
BEHAVIOR
The
diet 29 October 2021 – 02 Tuesday is good they had a great appetite and
they ate their favorite foods, were very excited to be with daddy 29
OCT – 02 NOV,
On
the day of departure, son and daughter were very sad. Daughter cried and
stated she misses daddy, son asked when daddy will return to Germany
and when can he visit
We all stated we love each other, daddy comforted both … then .. drove home... missing them so much.
SCHEDULE CHANGE REQUEST
N/A
DISCIPLINE
N/A, No discipline issues
Although this was an unnecessary email, it was put together well for the most part. If Mr. Jones was trying to document a positive picture of his relationship with their children, he accomplished his goal in this email. However, there is one issue, he was ordered to use OFW to communicate with Ms. Jones for all communications about their children except during emergencies. This email had no indication of any kind of emergency. It is not clear what prompted Mr. Jones to sent an email about their children to Ms. Jones' personal email while a couple of days earlier he sent an email, unrelated to their children, via OFW. It is important to state only a judge can determine if an action is a contempt to court. However, this email is potentially a contempt to court. Although a well writing email, it is on the wrong platform thus Ms. Jones could have used it to sue Mr. Jones for a contempt to court.
On October 29, 2021 court ordered:
ORDERED
that the parties shall both use the Close App (or the Our Family Wizard
("OFW") app should Mr. Jones pay for the costs for both parties to use the
OFW app) for all non-emergency communications regarding the children.
Additionally, the parties shall use the Office of Family Court Services
"Email Protocol" as a basis for their communications in the Close or OFW
apps.
Mr. Jones could have used this email as an opportunity to inform Ms. Jones about his purchase of OFW for both them. For unknown reasons, Mr. Jones didn't mention OFW and didn't use OFW. As advised before; before
drafting an email to the other parent, determine the purpose of your
email then choose the right platform. Is the email about your children
or about an issue between you and the other parent? If it is about your
children use OFW. If it is about something else, use other platforms. Always stay at point and no matter what or how you feel, at the moment, be clear and concise.
Here is the million dollar question, if you were Ms. Jones, would you sue Mr. Jones for a contempt to court for violating the court order?
Alexander Hamilton was and still is known for his notorious and infamous lineage. Very little is known about the people in his lineage. The little information we have about John Faucette, his maternal grandfather, comes from Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton's version of John Faucette may have been positively exaggerated. Hamilton, claimed that his grandfather, John, was a French Huguenots and a physician.
Hamilton hardly ever spoke about his family members and his upbringing in Nevis or his life in St. Kitts. Clearly he had good reasons for hiding his earlier life. His grandfather John died about ten years before Alexander Hamilton's birth. Not much is available about John's parents or life before he arrived in Nevis. There are discrepancies about where he was born and raised as well. There are some sources which claim, John was born in Saintonge, Kingdom of France in 1680, possibly 1683 or 1684 also could be true of his birth year. If these claims are accurate, we can explore to find John's ethnic origin and race. Saintonge was land of Santones, a Gallic Tribe in ancient times. After eight years of war between Romans and Santones, Romans took over Saintonge in 50 BCE. Roman rule ended in 476 AD in Saintonge when Franks defeated Romans. Variety of different Frank Tribes ruled the region until 888 AD. From 888 AD to the French revolution which ended in 1799, Saintonge's rulers varied between Franks and English. John might had been mixed with so many possible ethnicities: French, Santones, English, Romans, etc., these are the ethnicities which survived to this day. One thing is for sure, he is a Euro-mixed. His genetic make up, more than likely, predominantly was Frank and English aka Anglo-Saxon. Even if there was some Roman blood it must have been very little to none. We reach this conclusion based on his grand-son's genetic make up and its visual presentation in drawn pictures of him. John Faucette was white. Meaning, he had lighter hair color, colored eyes, and white skin.
It
is assumed that John spoke French however, he must have rather spoken
Saintongeaise language which was the language spoken in Saintonge. It is
a language related to French but was different. Due to claims that Rachel spoke French, which is not verified, it is assumed that she learned it from her father, John. Did he learn to speak English in Nevis or did he already know it before his arrival? It is not clear. There were English speakers in Saintonge in 1600s. It is important to note, John's last name is a Frank name but there is a strong possibility he could have been English ethnically living in the Kingdom of France as a Huguenots who assimilated to French. If in fact he was Saintonge or French his name was then his name was Jean Faucette. His name must have Angloised by the British Colony in Nevis.
In 1559, a new movement started in Saintonge which was called French Calvanism and those who followed it were called Huguenots. The conflict between the Catholic rule and the Huguenots built up for more than a century before the birth of Jean. There is no record of any family members for Jean in Saintonge. Hamilton claimed that his grandfather left Saintonge after the Revocation of Edict of Nantes in 1685. As soon as Louis XIV forbade
the Reformed to emigrate in 1669, and again after the revocation of the Edict, Huguenots tried to escape Saintonge to avoid force conversion back to Catholicism. Over 100,000 Huguenots crossed
borders between 1685 and 1987. Men who were caught were sent to the galleys and women to jail. The exit
channels were closely watched. The sea was easily crossed from the
ports of Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Dieppe and Rouen, where rowing
boats came and fetched fugitives and took them to English, Dutch or Danish
ships anchored offshore. The ships left with a few official passengers, such as
pastors, but mostly with clandestine travelers, in terrible conditions down in
the holds after they had paid the smugglers handsomely. The attempts often
failed because of informers. A young Jean, probably in his middle or late teens, must have followed the similar routes to escape Saintonge.
After his escape from Saintonge, on an unknown date, Jean arrived in the Island of Nevis, at the time, a British colony. There is no reason to believe that Jean had any money when he arrived in Nevis as Huguenots who escaped to other countries were extremely poor. In 1706, French invaded Nevis and in 1720, by then known as, John made his case for his loss during 1706 invasion. In 1720, in court records, John is recorded as a thirty-six year-old. if his age in 1720 was accurately recorded, in 1706 he must have been twenty-two years-old. He must have arrived earlier than 1706. This takes us to his middle or late teens to escape Saintonge. According to the census of 1708, taken just two years after the French
invasion, John was found with two unidentified white females and seven slaves. Some sources claim that there was a first wife which is not supported by any official record. There is only one Marry Faucette exists as the wife of John Faucette who at the time of this census couldn't have been older than eight years-old. As for the seven slaves, this paltry number of slaves
was far too few to run a sugar plantation of any size but many for a new comer who must have recently arrived to Nevis. This suggest that he had not made it as a big planter yet.
John escaped from Saintonge, his own land, due to economic inequalities causing the violence, conflict and oppression of his people by the Catholic government which was called Ancien Regime. He did what any oppressed person would have done and started to inspect, buy and sell enslave west African people who were kidnapped and brought to the new world. John's occupation was to inspect the enslaved people, similar to inspecting a cattle before they were sold as properties. This was the precise occupation Alexander Hamilton was referring to when he referred to his grandfather as a "physician." John continued accumulating his wealth by enslaving people for the land he obtained. John started a relationship with a child and they had two children out of wedlock together before he married her on August 21st 1718. His bride, Mary Uppingham was somewhere between eleven and/or eighteen years-old and John was either thirty-four or thirty-eight. There must have been between sixteen to twenty years age gap between the two. It is unknown how long they were together before they got married but their first child was born four years before their marriage. Mary was a British woman, and more than likely from a lower class, poor and of course a woman of a questionable character. Ron Chernow in his 2004 book, Alexander Hamilton, reports that their son, John and daughter, Ann were born before their marriage in 1718. Their oldest daughter Ann was born in 1714 and John was born two months before their marriage in 1718. After their marriage, they had five more children, including Alexander Hamilton's mother, Rachel. Rachel was born in 1729. John and Mary lost five of their children, only Rachel and Ann survived the harsh life in Nevis. This must have been devastating for both. The huge age gap between John and Mary is astounding. Mary's assumed birthday year is around 1700 or 1707. Assuming the 1700 is correct, she was barely a teenager when she gave birth to their daughter Ann whereas John was well advanced in his age, close to forty. By the time she was forty, she wanted to have nothing to do with him and to a point of cutting herself from his estate and inheritance.
As John exploited enslaved people and gained access to a free land, he occupied a house in southern Nevis
foothills. He ended up owning a small sugar plantation and had at least seven
slaves. In an island such as Nevis, the nature worked against people due to constant diseases, natural disasters, etc. Thus it was inevitable that the economy
would plummet. In 1737, Nevis' lost the prominence and a vast exodus happened. In 1737, Ann, who had been married a well-to-do planter named James Lytton, moved to St. Croix.
Mary and John got
separated in 1740. John paid her annuity of fifty-three pounds and Mary renounced all her rights to John's sugar plantation and seven slaves. Five years later, in 1745,
John died. After his dead, sources claim that he left everything he owned to his youngest, unmarried daughter, Rachel. This inheritance must have helped Rachel to find a suitor because shortly after her father's death, Rachel married a possibly Sephardic Jew named Johann Micheal Lavien.
It is not clear why John didn't leave anything to Ann, his oldest daughter, except the fact she was born out of wedlock. John must have been somewhere between sixty and/or sixty-five when he died. It is assumed John died of natural causes. In an island plagued with diseases and natural disaster, it is not hard to imagine a feeble man of over sixty struggling to survive of old age. Malaria, dysentery, and fellow fever were notorious for taking the lives of the people on the island. At the time of his death, it is not clear if Rachel, who was sixteen, was living with him. Ann was married to James and was living in St. Croix. Some sources suggests that Rachel may have left with her mother after her parents' separation in 1740.
What kind of man was John Faucette, whose wealth allowed Rachel to support herself and her children after his death? John was a man who fornicated with a child. Marry Uppingham was barely a teenager when she gave birth to Ann. He committed fornication for an unknown number of years before he finally married to Marry. Then he separated from her. It is not known if he fornicated with anyone else after his separation from his wife but in an island like Nevis it is a high possibility that he did.
As a person who escaped oppression, John's first action, after his escape, was to focus on exploiting and enslaving vulnerable people. Slave owners in Nevis were notorious for their brutality, mistreatment and even savagery against their slaves. There is no evidence to suggest John Faucette was any different. He officially owned seven enslaved people and his job was to inspect these human beings like animals before they were traded on a market place. This was how he made a living and how he gained his wealth.
As mentioned in the beginning, Alexander Hamilton never met his grandfather but did benefit from his grandfather's inheritance and earnings as a child and a teenager. Even though John never met Alexander Hamilton, John's past, his way of life, actions, etc, shaped the man Alexander Hamilton became and the life Hamilton strived for all his life.
Chernow, R. (2004) Alexander Hamilton.Penguin Books
