K-4 Literacy Interventionist

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Provides individual and small group instruction designed to meet individual needs and motivate students in pull out and/or classroom setting.
• Responding to data to meet the needs of all students for fluid RtI Process.
• Develops lesson plans and uses instructional materials suitable for verbal and/or visual instruction of students with a wide range of intellectual, physical and emotional maturity.
• Establishes and maintains standards of student behavior required to achieve effective participation and learning in all activities and lessons.
• Evaluates and monitors the educational progress of students using DDI in terms of response to interventions and attainment of proficiency levels; and the educational growth in relation to the student's ability, attitude, interests and conduct.
• Pushes in and collaborates with classroom teachers.
• Best practice in literacy effectiveness.

Qualifications/Knowledge Of Principles, theories, methods, techniques, and strategies pertaining to teaching and instruction of upper elementary students as it relates to decoding, fluency & comprehension.

• Know and have used a variety of intervention models, current programs, and strategies.
• Child growth and development and behavior characteristics of elementary students;
• Education curriculum and instructional goals and objectives, and the educational trends and research-based findings pertaining to student educational programming;
• Socio-economic and cultural background differences of general student population;
• Cultural responsiveness.
• Trained in interventions and tiers of RtI.
• Technology including devices and computer programs.
• Commitment to the success of all children.
• Demonstrates success in collaborative teaching, managing a mixed-ability classroom and facilitating performance-based learning.

Experience And Education Requirements

• Professional/Permanent certification in applicable grades/subject area with 3 years of teaching experience.
• A concentration in, master's degree, or higher, in Literacy.
• Knowledge of Expeditionary Learning is a plus.
• Classroom experience is essential.