26-27 Music Teacher

Memphis School of Excellence•Memphis, TN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

This position is for the 2026-2027 academic year. The role involves working with individual students or small groups to provide educational interventions and progress monitoring, particularly in reading, writing, and mathematics. The teacher will utilize an identification rubric to target specific students needing focused, short-term intervention, set performance goals based on assessment data, and develop targeted lessons. Responsibilities include developing an intervention schedule, maintaining intervention records, collaborating with teachers to align lessons with the classroom curriculum, and communicating student progress with staff and parents. The role also includes conducting small flexible groups, providing modeled/mini-lessons for teachers, circulating the room to assist students, providing individualized instruction, planning/teaching collaborative lessons, and assisting with updating remedial folders. Additionally, the teacher will remediate small groups, assist with content area studies, provide instruction at students' instructional reading levels, update remedial folders, model strategies for independent implementation, monitor pullout students regularly with assessments, assist with assessment administration, interpret and analyze scores, identify remedial students, and share strategies with teachers to improve test scores. The position also supports district initiatives, shares responsibility for remedial folders, assists in improving instruction, participates in professional development, and maintains ethical and professional behavior with confidentiality.

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor's degree
Must be highly qualified
Must be physically and mentally able to perform the responsibilities and duties of the position
Requires the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize, and/or analyze data. Includes exercising discretion in determining data classification, and in referencing such analysis to established standards for the purpose of recognizing actual or probable interactive effects and relationships.
Requires the ability to provide guidance, effective supervision, assistance, and/or interpretation to others regarding the application of procedures and standards to specific situations.
Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data, and information.
Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; the ability to calculate decimals and percentages; the ability to utilize principles of fractions; and the ability to interpret graphs.
Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems, philosophies, laws, regulations, and procedures; to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form; and to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.
Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria and the goals and priorities of planning and development programs.

Nice To Haves

Administrative experience is preferred
Governed by the Rules and Regulations of the Tennessee Code Annotated and the Tennessee Board of Education

Responsibilities

Work with individual students or small groups of students to provide educational interventions and progress monitoring.
Utilize an identification rubric to target specific students who need focused, short term intervention.
Set performance goals for individual students based upon assessment data.
Develop lessons which target the specific needs of identified students.
Provide high quality general education instruction to students who need focused, short term intervention in reading, writing and/or mathematics.
Develop an intervention schedule for identified students based on campus needs.
Maintain records of interventions and progress monitoring to ensure process fidelity.
Meet with teachers to ensure that lessons for the targeted students are aligned with the classroom curriculum.
Communicate with campus staff, network staff and parents regarding student progress.
Evaluate student progress.
As necessary, may provide supplemental intervention services to bilingual students.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Conduct small flexible groups to reinforce skills.
Provide modeled/mini-lessons for teachers requesting support.
Circulate room and assist students as needed.
Provide individualized instruction as needed in all subjects (i.e. study skills, review, difficult terms, etc.).
Plan and/or teach collaborative lessons with the teacher.
Assist in the updating of remedial folders.
Remediate small groups of children in reading, writing, and math.
Assist students with content area studies as determined by the classroom teacher.
Provide instruction at students’ instructional reading levels.
Update remedial folders with test scores and any materials that focus on particular skills.
Model strategies that students will learn to implement independently (i.e., test-taking strategies, organizational skills, etc.).
Monitor all pullout students regularly with assessments.
Assist with the administration of assessments as requested by classroom teachers and/or the Administrators whether or not students are identified as remedial.
Be able to interpret and analyze scores and other forms of data.
Identify remedial students through test data and set appropriate goals for them.
Share strategies with teachers to improve test scores.
Communicate student information to teachers in a concise and timely manner.
Support all new and on-going district initiatives (i.e. reading initiatives, assessment procedures, pilot projects, summer programs, etc.).
Share responsibilities for the completion of remedial folders.
Assist classroom teachers and support personnel in improving instruction.
Participate in professional development opportunities offered by the district.
Maintain ethical and professional behavior and observe confidentiality of student information.
Perform all other duties as assigned by the school’s principal and/or Instructional Coach.