Part-Time Interventionist - Reading - Sherwood Elementary School Job Phenix City area,Alabama USA,Education / Teaching

Interventionist

Position Title:

Interventionist
- Supervises: N/A

Job Goal:
To cultivate a community of learners that value collaborative problem solving. To implement school-wide practices that substantially accelerate the learning of struggling readers. To facilitate professional development that results in improved student reading achievement.

Qualifications:

1. Possess valid Alabama Teacher's Certificate.
2. Proper endorsement in teaching field.
3. Minimum of five (5) years teaching experience.
4. Master's Degree or higher
5. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board might find appropriate and acceptable.

Reports To:

School Principal
- Salary:
To be determined commensurate with local salary matrix, credentials, and experience.

Essential Duties of the Job:

Assist administrators in organizing literacy leadership teams that review assessment data and develop literacy plans for schools.

Collaborate effectively with faculty and administrators on a professional basis to achieve literacy improvement in their schools.

Nurture supportive, respectful behavior in all interactions among adults in the school.

Influence school wide policies, procedures and practices that prompt proficient reading for all students.

Provide an essential link among teachers on a grade level or within a department; across grade levels and across departments; and between faculty and administrators.

Build collaborative, professional relationships among administrators, faculty and staff.

Align reading standards, instruction, and measures of learning.

Select reading programs based on their compatibility with scientific research.

Secure commitment of all adults to implement a school wide research based, comprehensive reading plan that features systematic collection, analysis, and use of student performance data.

Demonstrate a high level of skill in all aspects of instruction that accelerates the learning of struggling readers.

Promote highly specialized reading instruction in which struggling readers thrive: instruction that is explicit, intensive, accelerated, and provide ample practice.

Arrange for the organizational features needed to increase the achievement of struggling readers: more time with more highly skilled teachers, reduced teacher/pupil ratio, and flexible/varied grouping.

Monitor student progress in ways that inform teaching and motivate learners.

Make available student materials that ensure students read at their instructional reading level throughout the school day.

Coordinate across instructional settings the instruction provided to struggling readers (e.g., intervention teacher collaborating with the social studies teacher).

Create practices that motivate struggling readers and reward their progress.

Create an environment in which all adults in the school know the struggling readers by name and collaborate in increasing their reading achievement.

Partner with the principal to:

Bring about all that is needed to facilitate a school wide commitment to reach all struggling readers.

Motivate faculties to contribute to the school wide commitment to all students reading well.

Structure professional activities that are research based, ongoing, coordinated, and responsive to student needs revealed by data (e.g., workshops, book studies, classroom coaching).

Model research based instructional procedures and help teachers implement these procedures.

Identify teachers' strengths and areas for improvement based on student performance data and classroom observations.

Provide teachers with feedback and coaching that impacts student learning.

Help teachers select materials and instructional strategies that fit students' needs and interests.

Organize professional materials to enhance a system of ongoing learning.

Organize and make accessible instructional materials (e.g., leveled text, electronic sources, and content related texts).

Ensure that research based literacy strategies learned in workshops are used effectively in classrooms.

Assist teachers in overcoming problems they encounter in their classrooms.

Work closely with new teachers and administrators, helping them to understand the school's literacy program and their roles in it.

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