Literacy Coach/Reading Specialist, Juvenile Detention Home
About The Position
The Literacy Coach works with the principal and faculty to determine the school’s strengths and challenges in the area of literacy in order to improve students’ reading, writing, and communication skills and content area achievement. This role involves working with teachers individually or in a collaborative team to provide a full range of reading, writing, and communication strategies, observing and providing feedback to teachers on instruction related to literacy development, and staying current with scientific based reading research (SBRR). The coach will also provide professional development to teachers to enhance students’ reading, writing, and communication skills, model the integration of literacy strategies and best practices, and administer standardized assessments in reading and mathematics.
Requirements
- Master’s Degree in Education or related field
- VA teaching endorsement as a Reading Specialist, Special Education, or related field.
- History of successful teaching (especially in area of reading) with at-risk learners.
- Effective organization and administrative management skills, including use of technology.
- Experience and/or enthusiasm about peer leadership opportunities and professional development.
Responsibilities
- Work with the principal and faculty to determine the school’s strengths and challenges in the area of literacy.
- Improve students’ reading, writing, and communication skills and content area achievement.
- Work with teachers individually or in a collaborative team to provide a full range of reading, writing, and communication strategies.
- Observe and provide feedback to teachers on instruction related to literacy development.
- Remain current with scientific based reading research (SBRR).
- Provide professional development to teachers to enhance students’ reading, writing, and communication skills.
- Model integration of literacy strategies and best practices.
- Administer standardized assessments in reading and mathematics.
- Stay current with educational research as it relates to literacy development.
- Summarize and disseminate the key concepts from research to the faculty at regular intervals.
- Incorporate SBBR best-practices into the instructional model.
- Administer pre- and post-tests in the areas of reading and mathematics to all enrolled students.
- Distribute assessment data to the teaching staff in a usable, organized, and electronic format.
- Deliver Professional Development (PD) to teachers at regular intervals and attending PD as appropriate.
- Foster a school-wide climate of literacy and learning.
- Provide support for teachers as they work to enhance the reading writing, and communication skills of students.
- Provide targeted and aggressive remediation to students in the greatest need.
- Encourage and support opportunities for the independent literacy development of students outside school hours.
- Model lessons, team-teach, find resources, promote reading strategies and literacy initiatives.
- Support and enhance, not supplant, classroom instruction.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
