Interventionist

About the Role

This position supports student growth and achievement by utilizing best practices and standards-aligned strategies to improve student mastery of grade-level standards in core content areas and to prepare students to become successful citizens and workers in the 21st century.

Responsibilities

• Creates an educational environment conducive to learning, appropriate to the maturity and needs of students.
• Prepares instructional materials for assigned classes and provides written evidence of preparation upon request.
• Assesses student accomplishments on an established timetable and provides written and oral progress reports to parents, guardians, administrators, and selected staff; administers tests and assessments.
• Plans interventions and prepares lessons and instructional materials to meet individual student needs within state and school requirements, based on educational, physical, and emotional levels of development.
• Confers with parents, administrators, specialists, mental health staff, and resource staff to develop educational programs for students.
• Motivates students and provides consistent reinforcement of learning skills, with continuous assessment and feedback for all learning activities.
• Maintains accurate, complete, and correct records as required by law, district, and administrative regulations.
• Uses screening and progress monitoring data to determine interventions and their effectiveness.
• Facilitates the development of school-based instruction and intervention maps at core and intervention levels.
• Ensures the evaluation of fidelity of core and intervention instruction.
• Implements a documentation system to ensure sufficiency of interventions.
• Evaluates the response to instruction and intervention for groups and individual students.
• Implements the Standard of Accountability Rubric (SOAR) to assess and identify school-level implementation trends, enhancing intentionality and differentiation of supports.
• Participates in and leads data meetings to determine learner-centered problems and problems of practice.
• Uses the 5 Whys to determine root cause analysis of teacher implementation and student academic gaps.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and endorsement in the grade/subject taught with a valid Tennessee certificate.
• Must be highly qualified as defined by state and federal guidelines.
• Governed by the Rules and Regulations of the Tennessee Code Annotated and the collective bargaining agreement.
• Must be physically and mentally able to perform the responsibilities and duties of the position.
• Proof of education, training, and/or experience is required.

Degree Equivalency Formula: Bachelor’s Degree = 4 years plus required years of experience. Master’s Degree = 2 years plus required years of experience. Where Master’s degrees are required, years for Bachelor’s Degrees must be included.