Long-Term Substitute Elementary School Intervention Specialist
Dayton Early College Academy•Dayton, OH
•Onsite
About The Position
Long-term Substitute Intervention Specialists serve as advocates and academic support team coordinators for students. The teacher manages students’ individualized educational plans (IEP). The IEP is based on modifications needed to address the student’s deficits and requires a variety of instructional strategies and settings. The teacher will know their students well, help them plan and follow through on their learning goals, and work tirelessly to create optimal learning experiences for students in their advisory groups.
Requirements
- Valid Ohio Intervention Specialist License or Ohio Substitute Education Unlimited Teaching License
- Effective interpersonal skills with children and adults
- A broad range of interests and experience with a passion for learning
- Knowledge of state and national academic content standards and IDEA rules and procedures
- Basic knowledge in all core content areas
- Knowledge of pedagogical theories, perspectives, and developments
- Sound classroom management skills
- Ability to improvise and work through uncertainties
- Effectiveness in an interdisciplinary, teamed environment
- Collegiality and an eagerness to participate in student-centered school activities are essential
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Leadership skills
- Excellent problem‐solving skills
Nice To Haves
- Prior relevant experience preferred
- Experience with technology‐integration in the teaching and learning process
Responsibilities
- Serve as positive role model for students
- Assess student academic, social, and personal strengths and needs
- Develop meaningful, appropriate relationships with each student and his/her parent/guardian
- Be available to students and parents for education-related purposes outside of the traditional prescribed times and day when required to do so (within reason)
- Implement, by instruction and action, DECA PREP’s mission
- Know and understand DECA PREP’s goals and how they align to content area standards as defined by Ohio Department of Education
- Celebrate student accomplishments
- Hold students accountable for their academic progress
- Advocate for, and on behalf of, students and families
- Forecast educational needs of each student
- Plan a program of instruction that is both challenging and that meets the individual needs, interest, and abilities of each advisee
- Report each student’s progress, both educationally and socially, through, at minimum quarterly reports, phone calls to parents, and weekly student meetings
- Attend faculty meetings and other staff development and planning sessions as determined by the principal and school staff
- Facilitate additional academic, social, and health services for each advisee as needed
- Mediate student conflicts to the best of the teacher/advisor’s ability
- Maintain accurate, complete, and factual records on each student as required by school law and sponsor agreement with The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
- Employ a variety of educational techniques in pursuit of educational goals and establish clear objectives for each student
- Work with school team on academic and social intervention strategies for student
- Provide supplemental and educational activities in order to support student growth
- Ensure that each student employs standard materials prescribed by school staff (planners, journals, etc.)
- Performs other duties as assigned by the principal
- Strives to continually improve professional competence
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