Reading Interventionist

Elementary Education Intervention Specialist

Certification by the South Carolina Department of Education in elementary education, reading, or special education; a minimum of five years of teaching experience; experience working with at-risk learners.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Uses data from standardized tests, classroom grades, and Measures of Academic Progress (MAP), and curriculum based measures to identify at risk students in reading in grades 6-8.
2. Coordinates with the school principal a schedule to accommodate identified students in the program.
3. Attends training sessions as the principal directs.
4. Maintains an in-depth knowledge of the South Carolina English Language Arts curriculum standards.
5. Provides instruction in reading to small groups of at-risk students as directed by the principal.
6. Works closely with English Language Arts teachers to coordinate efforts of the intervention program with the regular classroom to promote student success.
7. Maintains required data on individual student progress and disseminates data to principal, teachers, and parents and interim report and report card periods.
8. Compiles reports as needed.
9. Collaborates with the principal.