Job Details

Reading Interventionist Assistant

This position intends to assist teachers directly in helping students develop proficient reading skills that will contribute to their academic growth. Help recognize, address, and meet the needs of at-risk students in the general education classroom. Works extensively with students to help them improve specific reading skills such as letter-naming, initial sounds, phoneme segmentation, and comprehension strategies. Reports to building principal.

Essential Job Functions:

• Works cooperatively with building principal and classroom teachers in their classrooms and with children in small groups.
• Helps with scheduling of students.
• Provide support, training, coaching, and mentoring to build school and teacher capacity to increase student achievement.
• Collaborate with district administrators and school administrators, individual teachers, and teams of teachers at assigned school(s).
• Collect and analyze data to inform instructional decisions at the building level.
• Plan, coteach, and model research-based instructional approaches; assist and collaborate with the teacher to determine and reflect upon those approaches that best meet the students' needs.
• Consults frequently with classroom teachers on matters relating to reading instruction using our progress-monitoring instrument as a base.
• Design interventions and writes lesson plans detailing methods and materials.
• Promotes interest in reading.
• Willing to obtain Reading Recovery training if needed.
• Attend required professional development at the school level and district level.
• Utilize knowledge of research-based assessment and remediation strategies for increasing student achievement.
• Provide teachers with the resources needed to deliver a high level of instructional support to accelerate the learning of students who need academic assistance in reading.
• Assist teachers with data conversations for monitoring student progress in ways that inform teaching and motivate learners.
• Support the implementation of the district's instructional initiatives in the school.
• Connect students with appropriate programs and services that target their identified needs.
• Analyze new student data upon enrollment to identify student needs and connect students with appropriate resources.
• Stay current on coaching and feedback practices, trends, and developments in reading support.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by the Chief of Academics and Administration and principal.

Minimum Training and Experience:

Requires a valid Teacher certificate from the South Carolina State Board of Education, supplemented by at least three years of teaching experience, having demonstrated substantial success with students needing academic assistance in reading. Must possess a valid state driver's license.

Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions:

Physical Requirements: Requires sedentary work that involves walking or standing some of the time and involves exerting up to 10 pounds of force on a recurring basis or routine keyboard operations.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics (whether like or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communications: Requires the ability to speak and signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving assignments and directions to subordinates and receiving assignments and/or direction from supervisor.

Language Ability: Requires ability to read a variety of professional, financial and legal reports and documentation, policy and procedure manuals, job applications, etc. Requires the ability to prepare general reports, presentation materials, correspondence, recommendations, etc., with proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar, using all parts of speech. Requires the ability to speak with and before others with poise, voice control, and confidence.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions; to deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Requires the ability to apply influence systems in supervising staff; to learn and understand relatively complex principles and techniques; to make independent judgments in the absence of supervision; to acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation. Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, follow and give verbal and written instructions, to counsel and teach employees. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with persons of varying educational/cultural backgrounds and in a variety of technical and/or professional languages including human resource management, education, education administration, etc.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to add and subtract totals, multiply and divide, determine percentages and decimals, and determine time. Must be able to use practical applications of statistics.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape, and visually read various information.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes using office machinery.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items, keyboards, office equipment, control knobs, buttons, switches, catches, etc. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under significant stress when confronted with emergency situations or tight deadlines. The worker may be subject to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.

Physical Communications: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (talking: expressing or exchanging ideas through spoken words; hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear).

Performance Indicators:

Knowledge of Job: Has thorough knowledge of the school district's methods, procedures and policies as they pertain to the performance of duties of the Reading Interventionist Assistant. Has knowledge of the functions and interrelationships of the district and other governmental agencies. Is knowledgeable in the laws, ordinances, standards and regulations pertaining to the specific duties and responsibilities of the position. Can develop and maintain a positive rapport with District employees. Can make sound, educated decisions. Knows how to plan and organize.

Quality of Work: Maintains high standards of accuracy in exercising duties and responsibilities. Exercises immediate remedial action to correct any quality deficiencies that occur in areas of responsibility. Maintains high-quality communication and interaction with internal and external entities with whom the position interacts.

Quantity of Work: Performs described Essential Functions and related assignments efficiently and effectively to produce a quantity of work that consistently meets established standards and expectations.

Dependability: Assumes responsibility for completing assigned work. Completes assigned work within deadlines in accordance with directives, policy, standards and prescribed procedures. Maintains accountability for assigned responsibilities in the technical, human and conceptual areas.

Attendance: Attends and remains at work regularly and adheres to policies and procedures regarding absenteeism and tardiness. Provides adequate notice to higher management with respect to vacation time and leave requests.

Initiative and Enthusiasm: Maintains an enthusiastic, self-reliant and self-starting approach to meet job responsibilities and accountabilities. Strives to anticipate work to be accomplished and initiates proper and acceptable action for the completion of work with a minimum of supervision and instruction.

Judgment: Exercises analytical judgment in areas of responsibility. Identifies issues or situations as they occur and specifies decision objectives. Identifies or assists in identifying alternative solutions to issues or situations. Implements decisions in accordance with prescribed and effective policies and procedures and with a minimum of errors. Seeks expert or experienced advice where appropriate and researches issues, situations and alternatives before exercising judgment.

Cooperation: Accepts supervisory instruction and direction and strives to meet the goals and objectives of the same. Questions such as instruction and direction when clarification of results or consequences are justified, i.e., poor communications, variance with established policies or procedures, etc. Offers suggestions and recommendations to encourage and improve cooperation intra- and inter-departmentally.

Relationships with Others: Shares knowledge with managers, supervisors and co-workers for mutual benefit. Contributes to maintaining high morale among all employees. Develops and maintains cooperative and courteous relationships inter- and intra-departmentally, and with external entities with whom the position interacts. Tactfully and effectively handles requests, suggestions and complaints to establish and maintain goodwill. Emphasizes the importance of maintaining a positive image.

Coordination of Work: Plans and organizes daily work routine. Establishes priorities for the completion of work in accordance with sound time-management methodology. Avoids duplication of effort. Estimates expected time of completion of work elements and establishes a personal schedule accordingly. Attends required meetings, planning sessions and discussions on time. Implements work activity in accordance with priorities and estimated schedules.

Safety and Housekeeping: Adheres to all established safety and housekeeping standards. Ensures such standards are not violated.

Planning: Plans, coordinates and uses information effectively to enhance activities and production. Knows and understands expectations regarding such activities and works to ensure such expectations are met. Develops and formulates ways, means and timing to achieve established goals and objectives. Effectively and efficiently organizes,