Reading Specialist

Company: Paterson School District
Location: Paterson
Posted on: June 9, 2021

Job Description:

Effective Date(s): Immediately

Staff Needed: One (1) Reading Specialist

Qualifications:

• New Jersey Reading Specialist Certificate
• Engage learners in differentiated learning experiences for a range of skill levels and developmental needs found in the classroom, managing when appropriate, multiple instructional activities simultaneously
• Identify and select appropriate texts and materials to match students' strengths and needs and promote knowledge, independence, and motivation
• Introduce students to a wide variety of children's literature at various levels and teach them how to select and use books at different levels for different tasks with a focus on motivation and developing lifelong readers
• Five (5) years of successful teaching experience
• Work with school administrators of facilitate the coordination of the intervention program
• Ability to provide intervention instruction to at-risk students
• Experience working with all grades levels
• Posses interpersonal skills with students, staff, parents and community
• Diagnose students strengths and weaknesses and match these skills with appropriate techniques and materials
• Mastery of pedagogical and subject matter skills
• Demonstrate expertise in designing and implementing standards-based instruction
• Knowledge of New Jersey Student Learning Standards
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both orally and in writing, with staff, students, parents, administrators and the community

Salary: As Per Negotiated Contract

Initiator: Petra Liz-Morell, Principal

• Meet such alternatives to above qualifications as the Superintendent may find appropriate and acceptable
• Pending budget availability
• All postings are open for ten (10) consecutive days following the date or until filled

Keywords: Paterson School District, Paterson , Reading Specialist, Other , Paterson, New Jersey