Reading Interventionist/Teacher

Title: Reading Interventionist/Teacher

Qualifications:

1. Valid teaching certificate in North Carolina with an add-on licensure for elementary reading.

2. A minimum of 3 to 5 years of teaching experience with a proven record of excellence in the classroom.

3. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Reports to: Principal

Supervises: Teacher Assistant, if assigned

Job Goal: To provide leadership, coordination, collaboration, and innovation in curriculum and instruction, so that each student may have maximum benefit from the K-5 curriculum.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Follow all rules, policies, and procedures of Carteret County Public Schools along with state and federal regulations pertaining to school issues.

• Performs duties outlined in the Job Description of a Teacher, including managing instructional time, managing student behavior, presenting and facilitating instruction, monitoring student performance, providing instructional feedback, interacting effectively within the educational environment, and performing non-instructional duties as assigned or needed.

• Meets and plans regularly with school administrators, instructional coaches, other interventionists, and teachers to monitor and support literacy implementation.

• Provides high quality literacy instruction to small groups of students.

• Assesses and evaluates the literacy needs of individual students to determine level of need.

• Collaborates and communicates with teachers, administrators, and families to help identify best practices, strategies, and activities to enhance the reading skills of individual and small groups of students.

• Uses data to provide research-based interventions and instruction to students; maintains data-based documentation of continuous monitoring of student performance and progress.

• Assists with professional development of staff through training, modeling, and mentoring.

• Participates in district meetings and ongoing professional development to improve personal knowledge and skills.

• Creates a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of students.

• Guides the learning process toward the achievement of curriculum goals and, in harmony with the goals, establishes clear objectives for all lessons, units, projects, and the like to communicate these objectives to students.

• Employs instructional methods and materials that are most appropriate for meeting stated objectives.

• Attends staff meetings and serves on staff committees as required.

• Such alternatives to the above responsibilities that the principal may deem appropriate and acceptable.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this job. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of personnel so employed.

Terms of Employment: Ten month year/Contract/FLSA Exempt

Starting Salary and/or Grade: Salary based on state salary scale.

Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Carteret County Public School Board’s policy on Evaluation of Licensed Employees.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to maintain confidentiality of student information.
• Ability to follow detailed written and oral instructions.
• Working knowledge of effective methods of dealing with children.
• General knowledge of methods of adapting instruction, equipment, and tools for students with special needs.
• Masterful knowledge of literacy curriculum and instruction.
• Ability to collect, analyze, and maintain accurate records and statistical data and to develop meaningful reports from that information.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments.
• Ability to maintain order and discipline in a classroom.
• Expertise in planning and evaluating strategies for improving literacy instruction.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing; ability to communicate with school personnel, students, and parents while complying with the confidentiality requirements in local, state, and federal policies and statutes.
• Physical ability (able to exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally) and dexterity to perform the duties and responsibilities of the job, such as, walk, lift, stoop, stand, grasp, kneel, crouch and key requiring repetitive motions.