19-20 Reading Specialist Job Description - Middle Grades, Part-time

Description and Vision:

The Soulsville Charter School (TSCS) Middle School’s Reading Specialist’s primary role is to provide differentiated instruction for middle school; developing readers using the Read180 curriculum Monday-Friday. The specialist is tasked with providing foundational reading skills to enable students to grow, as measured by the NWEA MAP assessment, and matriculate to higher level reading classrooms. In addition to this primary responsibility, the specialist will operate portions of the TSCS middle school library, Accelerated Reader (AR) testing, and other assigned duties.

Report To: 

Middle School Director

Performance Responsibilities:

Reading Classes

• Teach small group sections of Foundational Reading intervention classes (6th, 7th and 8th grade groups) using the Read180 curriculum.
• Consistnetly track and use student data to monitor and update reading interventions. 

Centralized TSCS Library

• Manage centralized TSCS library every day, i.e., check-out, check-in, and reshelve books,  ensure that all TSCS library books checked out are labeled correctly (example: Property of TSCS stamp on front cover, correct genre and AR level, and labeled with a TSCS bar code)
• Report any library questions or concerns to an administrator.

Other: 

Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

1.  Bachelor’s Degree or higher degree

2.  Minimum of three years of successful K-12 classroom teaching experience, preferably in an upper elementary or middle school setting

3.  A valid reading specialist certificate strongly encouraged

4.  Deep knowledge of reading, writing and literacy development

5.  Outstanding presentation and facilitation skills

6.  Interpersonal skills (communication, problem solving, conflict management, collaboration) to share research based instructional approaches with teachers and administrators and provide advice, mentoring and coaching

7.  Strong organizational skills

8.  Familiarity with the implementation of Accelerated Reader, Read 180 and similar school wide reading programs

9.  Deep understanding of interpreting reading data, and targeting instruction to student reading levels