Interventionist

Job Title: Interventionist

Reports To: Building Principal

Classification: Certified

Location: Elementary School

Salary: Based on BCS Teacher Pay Scale with degree level and years of experience.

Length of Contract: 200 days

Job Summary

The Interventionist is responsible for supporting student achievement in the area of English

Language Arts and/or Mathematics. The Interventionist provides individual or small group

instruction to students who are struggling academically in the 3rd Grade. This position is also responsible for

monitoring, reporting, and communicating student progress and performance.

Essential Job Functions

• Provides high quality instruction to individual students and small groups
• Uses data to provide instruction to students and to bring their skills to grade-level
• Collaborates with teachers, administration, and families to help identify best practices for

individual and small groups of students

• Uses identified research-based interventions focuses specifically on individual student needs
• Maintains data-based documentation of continuous monitoring of student performance and progress

• Provides data to school teams and participates in decisions about student progress
• Communicates with teachers, administration, and families regarding student progress
• Assists with identifying students for placement in intervention groups
• Participates in meetings with teachers, administration, and families to discuss studen placement and progress

• Provides diagnostic assessments for students as needed
• Provides input for program development
• Supports implementation of assessment tools and data management systems

Ancillary Job Functions

• Attends the appropriate trainings to improve knowledge and skills
• Provides staff development opportunities
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Possession of West Virginia Teaching License
• Certification for applicable grade levels
• Three years of successful classroom teaching experience at the elementary level
• Demonstrates an understanding and use of equitable and culturally responsive practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree preferred
• Reading Specialist Certification preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to apply instructional strategies on differentiation
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to multitask needs between multiple schools
• Knowledge of collaboration practices, team teaching practices, and special education
• Ability to collect data and make course placement recommendation for students
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with school administrators, staff, students, and families

Work Environment

• Normal office/classroom environment and moderate noise levels

Physical Requirements

• Frequently required to speak and listen
• Ability to move throughout a school building and classroom
• Must be able to have repetitive wrist/hand/finger movement to work on computer and/or related office equipment

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees may be required to follow other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties as requested, subject to all applicable state and federal laws. Certain job functions described herein may be subject to possible modification in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.

Endorsement Code
3600__Elementary Education
3605__Multi-Subjects
4300__Reading Specialist
4400-Reading Teacher
4410-Developmental Reading
4420-Remedial Reading