About the Role
The Reading Literacy Teacher provides targeted instructional support to meet the literacy needs of struggling students through pull-out services and push-in support in the classroom. The role requires the ability to build trusting relationships with struggling readers and foster a supportive learning environment to achieve growth in our students’ literacy. The ideal candidate is adaptive, has a positive approach to challenges, and is relentless in their pursuit of helping every child become a reader.
Responsibilities
- Planning, monitoring, reporting, communicating student progress and performance, and collaborating with general education staff.
- Identify students for placement in intervention groups in collaboration with the instructional team.
- Plan and deliver high-quality small group instruction that meets the targeted needs of scholars (decoding/ fluency/comprehension).
- Administer ongoing reading assessments to monitor the progress of intervention efforts.
- Collaborate with co-teacher(s) to review and assist in developing lesson plans, provide students with grades and timely feedback, modify instruction, incorporate high-leverage co-teaching models, utilize data to inform lesson planning, schedule and attend regular planning and norming meetings, prepare for and attend IEP meetings.
- Collaborate with teachers across all core subjects to execute on interdisciplinary literacy initiatives and competency/standard alignment.
- Foster literacy environments in the Close Reading, Writing, Phonics, and Literacy Interventions blocks and mindsets where all scholars have access to grade-level standards and demonstrate high levels of growth and achievement.
- Uses identified research-based interventions focused specifically on individual student needs.
- Maintains data-based documentation of continuous monitoring of student performance and progress.
- Implements looking at student work protocols, data analysis practices, and urgently responding to student data.
- Communicates with teachers, administration, and families regarding student progress.
- Participates in meetings with teachers, administration, and families to discuss student placement and progress.
- Provides diagnostic assessments for students as needed.
- Attends the appropriate training to improve knowledge and skills.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Master's in Education, Special Education, or a related field.
- Experience with K-8 students.
- Strong background in intervention strategies and progress monitoring.
- Familiarity with multi-tiered support systems (MTSS) a plus.
Skills
- Able to work independently and in a self-reliant manner.
- Ability to turn best practices into high-quality, goal-driven results.
- Ability to apply instructional strategies for differentiation.
- Ability to collect data and make course placement recommendations for students.
- Displays effective time management skills.
- Experience with data management tools, organizational tools, and computer skills (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
- Possesses strong written, oral, and interpersonal skills to communicate with a varied audience.
Location
- BRONX, NY 10453
Work Type
- Full Time
Education Level
- Master's in Education, Special Education, or a related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $71,314.00 - $163,820.00 Salary/year
