Learning Specialist Long-Term Substitute

Essential Duties and Responsibilities of a Learning Specialist:

Position Description:

The learning specialist works with students, both directly and indirectly, to provide academic and emotional support; he or she is typically assigned a caseload and works with multiple students and teachers each day.

• Establishes positive relationships between students, teachers, parents, principals, and others in order to ensure a collaborative effort.
• Coordinate meetings with teachers, parents, division heads, and outside services to develop student support plans.
• Collaborate with students, teachers, and division heads to create strategic plans with measurable goals to promote academic success.
• Monitor student academic goals on a monthly basis through observations, formal and informal assessments. 
• Communicate with parents on a monthly basis on student progress.
• Document student progress using data and observation at the conclusion of each trimester.
• Implement and assist teachers with student accommodations and interventions
• Helps students develop study skills, time management skills, and organization skills.
• Provide social skills interventions one-to-one or in a small group setting.
• Collaborate with parents to create an effective learning environment at home.
• Assists teachers with preparing students for testing and provide testing accommodations.
• Helps teachers in the identification of students who would benefit from intervention.
• Utilizes effective reading strategies to build students reading skills in the areas of phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
• Provide reading and math support through small group or one-to-one instruction.
• Push into classrooms to provide support to teachers and students, or provide differentiated instruction