TITLE: Reading Teacher
QUALIFICATIONS:
- A valid teacher’s certificate with a Reading Teacher Endorsement
- Five (5) years of successful teaching at the elementary level.
- Knowledge of current research and best practices in reading instruction.
- Such alternatives to the above specifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
REPORTS TO: Principal
JOB GOAL: To provide reading instruction for students to supplement classroom
instruction and to provide support to teachers in application of
effective reading strategies.
ESSENTIAL PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide small group and individual reading intervention to identified students.
- Collaborate with other reading teachers and literacy leaders to analyze district and school-level data.
- Work collaboratively with teachers to determine reading needs of students based on data analysis and informal observation.
- Attend professional development to strengthen knowledge, skills, and strategies
- relative to reading instruction and current best practices.
- Support the planning and implementation of needs-based professional learning on the science of reading.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities related to reading literacy as assigned by supervisor.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Ten-month position. Salary commensurate with certification and experience according to the TCPS salary scale for teachers.