Reading Interventionist-RtI Specialist / Reading chez Education Service Center Region 13

This position is responsible for supporting student achievement with special attention to Tier 2 and Tier 3 instruction. The Reading Interventionist provides individual or small group instruction to students who require targeted or intensive interventions in order to perform successfully academically. This position is also responsible for monitoring, reporting, and communicating student progress and performance, and collaborating with general education staff to meet students’ needs. Considerable judgment, tact, patience, sensitivity, and flexibility are required to interact with students from varied socioeconomic backgrounds and learning styles. This position requires creativity and adaptive thinking to match teaching objectives, learning strategies, and instructional plans with students’ abilities. Judgment is required to interpret broad State, local, and Federal laws, regulations, and policies affecting the lives and education of students and the impact of the laws on instructional methodologies or techniques employed. Responsibilities: Reading interventionists work extensively with students to help them improve specific reading skills such as letter-naming, initial sounds, phoneme segmentation, and comprehension strategies. A Reading interventionist addresses the specific needs of a particular child when regular classroom instruction is not sufficient. 

Three (3) to five (5) years of successful classroom teaching experience is preferred. A strong background in reading content and pedagogy is preferred.