ESY Special Education Reading Teacher - Secondary
Newton Public Schools•Newton, MA
18h•Onsite
About The Position
The Reading Specialist provides direct reading service to students with reading disabilities, including students with language-based learning disabilities, to develop strong reading & writing skills in accordance with IEP goal areas and benchmarks. This specialist will work with students in groups and individually.
Requirements
- Valid Massachusetts Special Education/Moderate Special Needs teaching license required or a Valid Massachusetts Reading Specialist License
- Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, and/ or LindaMood Bell Certification required
- Masters Degree
- Experience teaching and assessing reading skills
- Ability to handle multitude of varying and complex literacy issues
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Computer experience
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity and experience with various encoding and decoding literacy instructional methodologies
- Familiarity with language-based instructional methodologies
- Familiarity and experience with the administration of reading assessments, analysis of data from assessments, and ability to write comprehensive educational evaluation reports from assessment data
- Familiarity with progress monitoring methods and utilization of data to drive intervention
- Familiarity and experience with individual and small group instruction & intervention in reading and writing
Responsibilities
- Provide direct instruction and intervention to struggling readers for encoding/ decoding, reading comprehension and reading fluency
- Work cooperatively and collaboratively with other professionals and service providers in planning instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners
- Comprehensive knowledge of reading and language-based disabilities and evidenced-based interventions for supporting students with varying reading and language-based disabilities
- Knowledge of specialized instructional techniques for supporting the written expression work of struggling readers
- Provide and support formal and informal literacy assessment and data analysis for progress monitoring and reporting purposes individualized educational programs
- Consistent, reliable and punctual attendance is essential for supervision and instruction of the students
- Responsible for implementing “other job related duties” as needed
