The academic specialist utilizes a pull-out model to work one-on-one or in small groups with students who have been identified as needing additional support in literacy, mathematics, and executive functioning skills to meet grade-level expectations. The specialist collaborates with classroom teachers to ensure that students with identified learning needs receive appropriate support while participating in general education classes.
Responsibilities
- Provide small group and one-on-one intervention based on student classroom performance, standardized test scores, and ongoing progress monitoring data.
- Plan and use appropriate, student-specific instructional and learning strategies, activities, materials, and equipment.
- Ensure students have access to necessary accommodations in general education classrooms
- Seeks and communicates strategies for teachers to support the learner in a classroom setting.
- Monitor student academic performance and offer interventions as needed when grades evidence a pattern of decline.
- Create an environment conducive to student learning.
- Send quarterly progress reports to parents for students served through a resource block.
- Use effective communication skills to present information accurately and clearly.
- Provide feedback to and collaborate with administration, teachers, and parents to coordinate the delivery of services to students with learning differences.
- Work together with the Director of the Individual Learning Center (ILC) and other service providers to support students’ learning needs.
- Participate in the annual review of students with learning differences along with administration and parents to review progress.
- Participate in team meetings as necessary.
- Provide consultation to teaching staff members to help support best practices for all students in classrooms.
- Perform any other non-teaching duties as assigned by the administration.
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