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Reading Specialist

Position Overview

A Reading Specialist works to help a children improve in an area of need. Instructional interventions focus on Reading. Interventions are designed so that the school can track a student’s progress. Response to Intervention (commonly abbreviated RTI or RtI) is an approach to academic and behavioral intervention used to provide early, systematic, and appropriately intensive assistance to children who are at risk for or already underperforming as compared to appropriate grade- or age-level standards. The Reading Specialist is an vital part of the RTI Team, which seeks to prevent academic and behavioral failure through universal screening, early intervention, frequent progress monitoring, and increasingly intensive research-based instruction or interventions for children who continue to have difficulty.

Roles and Responsibilities

(These are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position. Additional duties may be assigned.)

· Provide academic support/RTI in Reading

· Teach a new skill and build fluency in a skill

· Reinforce known skills while encouraging students to apply the skill to new situations or settings

· Provide multisensory reading instruction to students

· Help students improve specific reading skills such as letter-naming, initial sounds, phoneme segmentation and comprehension strategies

· Help students improve literacy skills, fluency and problem-solving

· Assist in the development of fine motor skills (in Kinder and 1st grade students)

· Assist students in developing organizational skills

· Organize and maintain progress monitoring data on individual students

· Inform the SPED teacher and/or the General Ed. teacher of student progress

· Administer standardized test to students in small group or one-on-one

· Actively participate in RTI meetings

· Weekly and/or bi-weekly progress monitor all students in tier II in the RTI process

· Perform other duties and responsibilities, as may be assigned by the supervisor

Preferred Qualifications, Skills, & Abilities

· Bachelor’s Degree, and Fluency in the subject matter to be taught

· Teaching Certificate required

· Leadership and team management skills

· Interpersonal and communication skills

· Organizational and self-management skills; Ability to handle multiple responsibilities effectively

· Goal orientation; Planning and execution skills

· Problem solving abilities

· Dependability; Readiness to go above and beyond when necessary to reach goals

Physical Demands

Significant standing, walking, moving, climbing, carrying, bending, kneeling, crawling, reaching, handling/carrying, pushing, and pulling. Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential tasks.

EOE