Job Description:
The Literacy Instructional Coach and Interventionist provides leadership professional learning and coaching support to teachers on the development of the ACPS Literacy curriculum practices that increase opportunities for all students to succeed in a general education settings. This role includes providing direct academic intervention in the area of Language Arts. This job reports to the School Principal.
Qualifications:
Education:Bachelors Degree; Masters Degree in Education preferred.
Certificates & Licenses:Valid Virginia Department of Education license required or eligibility to obtain one.
Endorsements:Reading Specialist endorsement is preferred but not required.
- Experience:
- Minimum of 3 years of successful teaching experience.
- Knowledge of effective instructional practices in education forall learners.
- Knowledge of and commitment to implementing the MultiTiered Systems of Support (MTSS) or similar systems of student support.
- Knowledge and experience administering diagnostic and progress monitoring assessments to target specific skills and concepts.
- Demonstrate leadership organizational skills communication skills and the ability to work effectively with others.
- Experience with researchproven interventions focused specifically on individual student needs.
- Experience with progress monitoring data analysis and documentation of student progress in order to inform instruction.
- Ability to reflect on instruction and student progress in order to plan for instructional adjustments.
- Maintain collegial working relationships and strong interpersonal skills with all stakeholders.
Essential Functions:
- Organizes and facilitates in a collaborative manner program specific professional learning and implementation to support all of ACPS students.
- Coordinates services and communicates program goals with appropriate personnel.
- Facilitates the development and implementation of ACPS literacy frameworks and subcomponents such as the Elementary Reading Guidelines.
- Strengthens teachers instructional knowledge and their repertoire of pedagogical strategies for teaching rigorous content to all students.
- Facilitates the consistent use of effective literacy strategies by supporting teachers through coplanning coteaching modeling demonstration sessions reflecting and focused classroom observations.
- Supports teachers in creating classroom environments in which literacy is consistently and effectively integrated and where all learners are actively engaged and supported in challenging and rigorous studies as they make meaning of academic content through daily reading writing oral communication experiences and handson activities.
- Collaborates with teachers (general education special education and English Language Learning teachers) and administrators to develop and provide differentiated support in which teachers set student achievement related to growth in reading and professional development goals that are pedagogicallybased and datadriven.
- Facilitates the analysis and interpretation of formative and summative literacy data and continuous improvement process schoolwide.
- Assists administrative and instructional staff in analyzing and interpreting data and designing implementing and evaluating interventions to improve student achievement.
- Collaborates with teachers both individually and in small groups to analyze student work reflect on instructional delivery evaluate lessons and differentiate instruction accordingly.
- Provide direct reading instruction to students in small groups or individually.
- Administer and support student progress monitoring and assessments
- Oversee supplemental instruction and intervention
- Works directly with students to improve foundational reading skills such as phoneme segmentation decoding encoding and comprehension
- Documents work and keep progress logs with teacher input.
- Performs other related duties as assigned to ensure the efficient and effective functioning of the work unit.
Clearances:
- Criminal Justice Fingerprint/Background Clearance.
- Tuberculosis Skin Test.
Public Health Compliance
- Must follow safety and health protocols.
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