What are the responsibilities and job description for the Reading Interventionist - Carden Park - 2025 position at St. Joseph School District?
Qualifications:
Required: Must hold a Bachelor's Degree with a valid Missouri teaching certificate K-6.
Preferred: Five years of successful classroom teaching experience.
FLSA: Exempt
Salary Schedule: Per Approved Teacher Salary Schedule
Direct Report: Building Principal
Terms of Employment: 9 month
Eligible for emergency telework: With Supervisor Approval
Purpose: To help provide the kind reading instruction and learning environment that will enable each student in the building to make progress towards mastery. The focus of the intervention specialist is to develop a student-centered system of intervention that effectively works to close the achievement gap in reading.
Essential Job Functions:
- Attend work in a regular, reliable and punctual manner.
- Demonstrates knowledge of scientifically based reading instruction.
- Effectively employ reading intervention strategies with student daily.
- Provide classroom support when needed with team-teaching, model lessons, and lesson planning.
- Review and report out intervention data with all stakeholders.
- Utilize data effectively in order to adjust instructional practice and student grouping.
- Understands how to collaboratively plan with staff to effectively analyze and use data to implement intervention programs.
- Understands how to use technology for instructional planning, i.e. creating reports and using data to plan lessons.
- Communicates and collaborates with classroom teachers regarding alignment between classroom instruction and interventions.
- Confer with parents concerning individual students experiencing reading difficulties or those requiring special remedial help.
- Other assigned duties.
Employee Behavior and Conduct:
District employees shall conduct themselves in a professional manner and shall exhibit and extend such professional conduct appropriate for the circumstances to those with whom they come into contact, both internally and externally during the performance of their duties. Examples of professional conduct include, but are not limited to, being communicative, informative, fair, honest, and respectful.
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