ELA Catalyst-MOSQUITO

Mosquito School is seeking a highly motivated, dynamic individual to fill the full-time position of an ELA Catalyst. Mosquito School is proud to provide students with a safe learning environment which supports student learning. Students are embraced with culture, traditions and encouraged to strive for success.Duties and Responsibilities:• Provide support to in-school professional staff in literacy instructional improvement. • Provide professional development activities and work with in-school staff in exploring a wide variety of literacy instructional strategies. • Work extensively with students to help them improve specific reading/writing skills such as letter-naming, initial sounds, phoneme segmentation, and comprehension strategies.• Focus on specific needs of particular students where regular classroom instruction is not sufficient. • Work with the teacher to design methods of learning that are most appropriate for each child. Responsibilities:• Provide leadership and support through modeling and mentoring for teachers in planning, assessment and implementation of curriculum objectives and instructional approaches. The role is to support staff rather than to evaluate staff. • Research best practice and provide resources appropriate for implementation of curricula. • To encourage and facilitate innovative and creative teaching practices and resources so that concepts are taught in ways that are relevant to students. • To enhance teacher learning and professional knowledge to facilitate changes in thinking and practices where necessary.• In cooperation with the staff and Principal, organize the instructional Literacy program of the school and provide leadership in the field of curriculum development while ensuring that provincial curriculum requirements are met.• Provide leadership for setting a compelling and high-leveraged Literacy learning focus based on evidence that it can have significant impact on teaching practices and student learning. • Engaged collaboratively in establishing school action plans, coordinating improvement activities, and evaluating school progress in relation to the school learning focus.• In cooperation with the principal, coordinate the schedules, plan for in-servicing and facilitate support such as weekly meetings. • Promote and encourage parental communication through family literacy programming to expand sharing the love of reading and lifelong learning.Intervention Duties • Consult frequently with classroom teachers on matters relating to reading instruction using our progress-monitoring instrument as a base. • Design interventions and write lesson plans detailing methods and materials. • Assist in the evaluation of on-going programs and make recommendations for change.• Assist teachers and administrators and/or supervisors in implementing the school reading program. • Help teachers diagnose reading strengths/areas of improvement and match these skills with appropriate techniques and materials.• Keep parents informed as to the purposes and progress of the Literacy program. • Work with support staff and school administrators to facilitate the coordination of the reading program with the curriculum. • Consult with curriculum committees studying such topics as textbook selection, vocabulary development, concept development, supplementary materials, and the development of study skills.• Work with the classroom teacher and district personnel to coordinate reading instruction designed to meet the individual needs of students.• Work with the classroom teacher to monitor student progress. • Perform other responsibilities as may, from time to time, be assigned by the supervisor. • Familiar with the RTI process and Tiered Instruction.