Reading Specialist - Title I

POSITION DESCRIPTION

POSITION TITLE: Title I Reading Specialist/Literacy Coach

FLSA.: Exempt Professional

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must hold proper state teaching certification .
• Reading endorsement required.
• Two years of successful teaching experience preferred.

REPORTS TO: Building Principal and receives program direction from the Director of Instruction and Educational Services.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Teacher work calendar and benefits as provided in the Teacher's Negotiated Agreement.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Communicate and implement the District and building reading improvement plans with administrators, staff members, students and parents.
• Use individual student assessment data to construct appropriate reading improvement plans for qualifying individual students.
• Document the progress of individual student reading improvement plans.
• Maintain an accurate log of student and staff support services.
• Collaborate with classroom teachers to identify and implement specific strategies to improve the reading performance of all students.
• Assist administrators in reviewing building assessment data to recommend and support grade level reading improvement goals.
• Assist administrators in reviewing assessment data to recommend and assist in building level professional development which support identified reading improvement goals.
• Identify the resource and educational needs of the school’s parents to support reading improvement.
• Coordinate parent education reading improvement activities.
• Work with building principal to plan budgetary projections regarding the school’s reading improvement plans.

OTHER JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Support the total school program by observing curricular and extra-curricular student activities.
• Exhibit dependability and punctuality in assigned duties.
• Display appropriate personal and professional traits that exhibit a positive role model for students.
• Collaborate with the Director of Instruction and Educational Programs to review and implement program improvements to support the District’s reading improvement goals.
• Assist administrators in the coordination of standardized testing.