Position Specification

Official Title: Reading Interventionist Teacher

Reporting To: CEO and Principal

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Organization Overview:

Global Academies Charter School (GACS) will nurture creative leaders who will be globally competitive yet compassionate. As holistic educators, we will not only prepare our scholars for the 21st century work place but prepare scholars to bring change to a better world. GACS serves scholars in grades kindergarten through eighth grades. Although we have a strong community base of enrollment from the West Philadelphia community, our global studies curriculum attracts scholars from surrounding Philadelphia communities including Southwest Philadelphia, North Philadelphia, Northeast Philadelphia and Northwest Philadelphia. It is our goal that GACS scholars graduate endowed with the knowledge to continue to carve out new paths in the global community. It is this level of emotional intelligence, social intelligence and spiritual intelligence that will propel scholars to persist through high school and gain the fortitude required to successfully attain their life mission and goals.

Role Summary:

The School Literacy Interventionist woks collaboratively with the Director of Instruction and Curriculum to implement small group or individualized instruction to scholars as an intervention strategy to remedy specific deficiencies in reading.

Education:

• Reading Specialist Certification strongly recommended or proof of current school enrollment working toward certification
• Teacher Certification in elementary or secondary education
• A minimum of 2 years of direct classroom teaching experience as a teacher
• A minimum of 2 years of teaching reading

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of and ability to apply effective instructional and assessment practices in the teaching of reading at the earliest grade levels
• Knowledge of and ability to apply elementary school curriculum, current staff development methods and programs
• Knowledge of and ability to apply classroom management and scholar assessment with scholars-at-risk
• Knowledge of current educational research, program evaluation, and program effectiveness
• Ability to organize work and multi-task the work load between serving as a lead teacher and performing Literacy duties
• Proven ability to work well with adults, parents and other staff members
• Demonstrated ability to analyze raw data and develop programming for scholars
• Successful experience teaching reading to students-at-risk of failing or students with other exceptional learning needs