Math Intervention Specialist

Math Intervention Specialist

This position is responsible for working collaboratively with other educational professionals to design and provide instruction and interventions for educational programs for exceptional students. The Math Intervention Specialist is a specialized service provider and qualified to diagnose and remediate students in foundational math skills. Using data-driven practices and evidence-based interventions, the Math Intervention Specialist will work closely with classroom teachers, special education staff, and administration to close learning gaps and promote student success in mathematics.

The Math Intervention Specialist is certified to provide professional development to educational staff and serve in the role of mentor, coach, or advisor to Special Education Teachers and Paraprofessionals. The Math Intervention Specialist reports to the Director of Education.

Responsibilities include providing direct instruction to students identified as eligible for math services in individual and/or small group settings, using identified needs to guide the learning process toward student achievement of math concept standards, using a variety of manipulatives and hands-on activities to support content standards and the needs and capabilities of the individuals or student groups involved, creating a classroom environment and research-based program of study that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the student, providing written evidence or preparation upon request of immediate supervisor, taking all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students' equipment, materials, and facilities, maintaining accurate records as required by school policy, administrative guidelines, or specific program requirements, conducting or participating in needed parent conferences and all related student IEP meetings, assisting the Principal with developing criteria for levels of intensive interventions, developing a Multi-tiered System of Support (MTSS) model for math skills and implementing supports at three levels:
Universal, Tier II, and Tier III, conducting student assessments to identify those eligible for intervention services, plan instruction, and assist staff members in learning various assessment techniques, assessing the accomplishments of students on a regular basis and providing progress reports as required, collaborating as needed with appropriate school staff and administration regarding students who may need specialized services, planning, developing, and implementing a weekly intervention schedule, including individual and group treatments, co-teaching, professional development, and specialized projects, delivering consistent instruction that demonstrates knowledge of content and pedagogy through a variety of active engagement and instructional strategies, effective questioning and discussion techniques, positive and constructive feedback, and responsiveness to student learning and behavioral needs, managing a safe and orderly environment that demonstrates purposeful and equitable learning, structured routines and classroom expectations, skillful organization of the physical space, and positive, appropriate, and highly respectful interactions among students and staff, managing student data, assessing student learning, and monitoring progress, completing documentation, reports, summaries, and other evaluative measures of students' individual reading and writing progress aligned to reading goals, showing evidence of adaptations as needed within dictated timelines, writing, assessing, and evaluating effective and measurable math IEP goals, attending IEP meetings with professionalism, accurate data and records, and respectful parent communications, coaching special education teachers and modeling instructional strategies in math, including but not limited to math concepts, research-based curriculum, and the latest math learning tools, providing professional development to para educator staff (IBAs), ensuring best practices in math instruction and support, striving to maintain professional competence through professional development activities,…