Academic Interventionist (Pupil Appraisal)

St. Landry Parish School Board•Opelousas, LA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Academic Interventionist (Pupil Appraisal) will provide direct instruction to students, individually or in small groups, to enable students to develop literacy and mathematical skills. This role involves planning and preparation for instruction, managing classroom procedures, using questioning and discussion techniques, engaging students in learning, and using assessment in instruction. The position requires a commitment to fostering student growth and development within a dynamic educational environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
Valid Louisiana Teacher Certificate

Nice To Haves

Additional criteria the Superintendent and/or School Board may establish.

Responsibilities

Establish instructional outcomes by identifying exactly what students will be expected to learn, including rigor and expectations.
Write instructional outcomes in the form of student learning targets.
Determine instructional activities and the resources needed to complete them.
Determine instructional activities with suitability for diverse learners.
Plan for appropriate methods of assessment to determine a level of student attainment.
Differentiate instruction for students of varied abilities.
Create measurable outcomes central to the discipline and related to those in other disciplines.
Establish and monitor routines and procedures for the smooth operation of the classroom and the efficient use of time.
Use and manage instructional groups effectively.
Transition between activities and manage materials to maintain momentum and maximize instructional time.
Establish efficient routines and teach students to employ them effectively.
Use questioning and discussion techniques to deepen student understanding.
Use divergent as well as convergent questions framed in a way that they facilitate forming hypotheses, making connections, and challenging previously held views.
Value student responses to questions by responding to them and using their ideas as a foundation for discussion.
Use high-quality questions to encourage students to make connections amongst concepts or events previously believed to be unrelated and arrive at new understandings of complex material.
Pose questions for which they do not know the answers; thus, eliciting student responses, opening lines of communication, and promoting thinking by students.
Engage all students in important issues and in using their own language to deepen and extend their understanding.
Allow students to formulate questions used in class discussions.
Teach students how to formulate high-level questions.
Promote learning through discussion.
Use a range of techniques to ensure that all students contribute to the discussion and enlist the assistance of students to ensure the outcome.
Actively involve students in important and challenging content aligned with lesson objectives.
Develop student understanding through engagement activities.
Provide choice of work and assist students in making important contributions to the intellectual life of the class.
Create activities and assignments that promote learning and are aligned to the goals of the lesson.
Create activities and assignments that require student thinking that emphasize depth over breadth, allowing students to exercise choice.
Group students of similar background and skill.
Use instructional materials that are developmentally appropriate to the students’ experience as well as the course content.
Allow time for reflection and closure in all lessons.
Facilitate instruction with students taking a major role in their learning.
Recognize assessment as an integral part of instruction.
Assess and monitor student learning by eliciting evidence of student understanding using a variety of techniques.
Monitor student understanding, offering timely and constructive feedback and providing guidance to students in areas of needed improvement.
Circulate in the classroom to monitor student learning.
Create questions or use techniques to ascertain the degree of understanding of every student.
Provide students with clear criteria for learning.
Teach the skills necessary for students to check their skills and assume responsibility for their learning.
Reflect on craft and recognize the need for adjustments in instruction.
Engage students in self- or peer- assessment.
Perform other job-related duties as assigned.