Academic Interventionist; Pupil Appraisal

Academic Interventionist (Pupil Appraisal)

Starting Date: Immediately

Job Goal:

Toprovide direct instruction to students, individually or in small groups, to enable students to develop literacy and mathematical skills.

Qualifications (minimum education, licensure, skills, and/or experience):

• Valid Louisiana Teacher Certificate.
• Additional criteria the Superintendent and/or School Board may establish.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Domain I:
  Planning and Preparation-Setting Instructional Outcomes (1C)
• Establish instructional outcomes by identifying exactly what students will be expected to learn including rigor and expectations.
• Write instructional outcomes in the form of student learning targets.
• Determine instructional activities and the resources needed to complete.
• Determine instructional activities with suitability for diverse learners.
• Plan for appropriate methods of assessment to determine a level of student attainment.
• Differentiate instruction for students of varied abilities.
• Create measurable outcomes central to the discipline and related to those in other disciplines.
• Domain II:
  Managing Classroom Procedures (2C)
• Establish and monitor routines and procedures for the smooth operation of the classroom and the efficient use of time.
• Use and manage instructional groups effectively.
• Transition between activities and management of materials to maintain momentum and maximize instructional time.
• Establish efficient routines and teach students to employ them effectively.
• Domain III:
  Using Questioning and Discussion Techniques (3B)
• Use questioning and discussion techniques to deepen student understanding.
• Use divergent as well as convergent questions framed in a way that they facilitate forming hypotheses, making connections, and challenging previously held views
• Value student responses to questions by responding to them and using their ideas as a foundation for discussion.
• Use high quality questions to encourage students to make connections amongst concepts or events previously believed to be unrelated and arrive at new understandings of complex material.
• Pose questions for which they do not know the answers; thus, eliciting student responses, opening lines of communication, and promoting thinking by students.
• Engage all students in important issues and in using their own language to deepen and extend their understanding.
• Allow students to formulate questions used in class discussions.
• Teach students how to formulate high-level questions.
• Promote learning through discussion.
• Use a range of techniques to ensure that all students contribute to the discussion and enlist the assistance of students to ensure the outcome.
• Domain III:
  Engaging Students in Learning (3C)
• Actively involve students in important and challenging content aligned with lesson objectives.
• Develop student understanding through engagement activities.
• Provide choice of work and assists students in making important contributions to the intellectual life of the class.
• Create activities and assignments that promote learning and are aligned to the goals of the lesson.
• Create activities and assignments that require student thinking that emphasize depth over breadth allowing students to exercise choice.
• Group students of similar background and skill.
• Use instructional materials that are developmentally appropriate to the students’ experience as well as the course content.
• Allow time for reflection and closure in all lessons.
• Facilitate instruction with students taking a major role in their learning.
• Domain III:
  Using Assessment in Instruction (3D)
• Recognize assessment to be an integral part of instruction.
• Assess and monitors student learning by eliciting evidence of student understanding using a variety of techniques.
• Monitor student understanding offering timely and constructive feedback providing guidance to students in areas of needed improvement.
• Circulate in the classroom to monitor student learning.
• Create questions or use techniques to ascertain the degree of understanding of every student.
• Provide student with clear criteria for learning. Teach the skills necessary for students to check their skills and assume responsibility for their learning.
• Reflect on craft and recognizes the need for adjustments in instruction.
• Engage students in self- or peer- assessment.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Physical Demands: The position encompasses a variety of physical demands, including the need for sustained energy levels throughout the day. Essential skills involve…