Middle School Integrated Language Arts - Reading Specialist (Metro Schools)
Middle School Integrated Language Arts - Reading Specialist (Metro Schools) JobID: 22081
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- Provide Reading Instruction: Deliver small group or one-on-one targeted reading instruction to students who require additional support, using research-based strategies and interventions.
- Assess Student Reading Levels: Administer and analyze reading assessments to determine students’ reading levels and identify specific needs for intervention.
- Collaborate with Classroom Teachers: Work closely with classroom teachers to develop differentiated reading instruction strategies, share progress updates, and provide guidance on how to support struggling readers in the general classroom setting.
- Take attendance each period and monitor students during outside classroom times
- Instruct and monitor students in the use of learning materials and equipment
- Use relevant technology to support instruction
- Provide appropriate feedback on work
- Monitor Student Progress: Track and document students' reading progress over time, adjusting intervention strategies as needed. Provide regular feedback to parents and teachers.
- Communicate with Families: Maintain open communication with parents and caregivers to discuss student progress, challenges, and strategies for supporting literacy development at home.
- Build relationships with students, as well as help them develop life skills, positive character traits, and more
- Encourage and monitor the progress of individual students
- Manage student behavior in the classroom by establishing and enforcing rules and procedures
- Provide student support, counseling for students with academic problems and provide encouragement
- Strong knowledge of reading instruction, assessment, and intervention techniques.
- Orton Gillingham, Diebels training preferred.
- Ability to work collaboratively with other instructors to construct and maintain a high quality-learning environment
- Ability to work collaboratively with students and their families to optimize learning
- Ability to provide personalized instruction & coaching to students.
- Ability to conduct ongoing assessment of student progress and adjust instruction & coaching accordingly
- Ability to counsel each student regarding his/her academic and behavioral progress
- Ability to implement all institutional policies
- Knowledge of laws, legal codes, and government regulations
- Patience, creativity, and a passion for fostering a love of reading in young learners.
- Design and implement curriculum that stresses discovery and different learning methods for students at a variety of English and Language Arts skills levels and backgrounds
- Prepare lesson plans that teach core objectives and principles that are relevant to future education, and that demonstrate how this knowledge is useful in the real world
- Manage, plan, prepare, and differentiate class activities that facilitate active learning experiences
- Complete long and short-term planning
- Grade class work, homework, tests, and assignments
- Make changes to learning plans and activities
- Provide appropriate feedback on work and provide parents with feedback
- Provide a variety of learning materials and resources for use in educational activities
- Update online class materials using Schoology
- Modify units and adapt them to current classes
- Identify and select different instructional resources and methods to meet students' varying needs
- Prepare classroom for class activities