Reading Specialist - Title I - East Elementary

POSITION TITLE:     Title I Reading Specialist/Literacy Coach

FLSA.:                       Exempt Professional

REPORTS TO:            Building Principal

 
QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must hold proper state teaching certification .
• Reading endorsement required.
• Two years of successful teaching experience preferred.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Communicate and implement the District and building reading improvement plans with administrators, staff members, students and parents.
• Use individual student assessment data to construct appropriate reading improvement plans for qualifying individual students.
• Document the progress of individual student reading improvement plans.
• Maintain an accurate log of student and staff support services.
• Collaborate with classroom teachers to identify and implement specific strategies to improve the reading performance of all students.
• Assist administrators in reviewing building assessment data to recommend and support grade level reading improvement goals.
• Assist administrators in reviewing assessment data to recommend and assist in building level professional development which support identified reading improvement goals.
• Identify the resource and educational needs of the school’s parents to support reading improvement.
• Coordinate parent education reading improvement activities.
• Work with building principal to plan budgetary projections regarding the school’s reading improvement plans.

OTHER JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Support the total school program by observing curricular and extra-curricular student activities.
• Exhibit dependability and punctuality in assigned duties.
• Display appropriate personal and professional traits that exhibit a positive role model for students.
• Collaborate with the Director of Instruction and Educational Programs to review and implement program improvements to support the District’s reading improvement goals.
• Assist administrators in the coordination of standardized testing.

Contact Information:
Human Resources
315 E Dunklin Street
Jefferson City MO 65101

573-659-3013

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION

Applicants for admission or employment, students, parents of elementary and secondary school students, employees, sources of referral and applicants for employment, and all professional organizations that have entered into agreements with the district are hereby notified that the district does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.