Details
Posted: 15-Apr-22
Location: Washington, D.C.
Type: Full Time
Preferred Education: Masters
Categories:
Special Needs
Capitol Hill Day School seeks a full-time Middle School Learning Support Specialist for the 2022-2023 academic year.
At Capitol Hill Day School, learning is challenging, engaging, playful, and relevant to the real world. Students learn across subjects with an experiential curriculum that integrates not only academic subjects, but the arts, physical education, service learning, and technology. Through an extensive field education program, students take part in experiences beyond the classroom related to topics of study. Teachers collaborate with each other in developing, planning, and implementing curriculum; school-wide, they create a spirit of camaraderie through their interactions with students, parents, and other members of the staff. Also essential to the School’s program is its commitment to diversity, ensuring that students from varying backgrounds, cultures, and learning styles learn from and with each other. Emphasis is placed on building a classroom community that respects each individual while teaching children how to become caring, engaged members of the group.
Capitol Hill Day School students graduate with a love of learning, strong critical thinking abilities, an understanding of important ideas, and a healthy sense of self. Students develop a deep respect for their community and for diversity in all its forms.
The Middle School Learning Support Specialist will focus on 5th-8th grades. Duties include, but are not limited to, working with students, families, faculty/staff, and outside providers, as described below:
Work with Students
- Provide support for students in grades 5-8 through in-class assistance, small-group instruction, and individual meetings. Areas to be addressed include: academic, executive functioning, attention, and self-advocacy.
Work with Families
- Provide resources to help families navigate executive functioning and class-specific challenges at home.
- Work with families to discuss outside evaluations, support services, and implementation of suggested strategies.
Work with Faculty/Staff
- Work with the Student Support Team to identify students requiring additional educational evaluations or other outside support, and coordinate identified services with students, families, and teachers.
- Draft Learning Support Plans based on outside evaluative information.
- Collaborate with the Student Support Team as well as Middle School Faculty regarding evaluations and recommendations.
- Participate in weekly meetings with Cohort teachers to develop a shared understanding of student needs and to strategize about how staff can collectively support individuals and groups of students.
Work with Outside Providers
- Coordinate with outside providers (i.e. tutors, evaluators) to integrate strategies across settings.
Requirements:
Master’s degree in special education and experience teaching at the middle school level; understanding of child development and progressive education pedagogy; experience using a range of strategies to differentiate instruction to meet individual student needs; commitment to working in close collaboration with professional colleagues.
Differences in religion, socio-economic status, racial and cultural heritage, sexual orientation, and gender identity and expression create the opportunity for people to learn from each other as they learn with each other. As such, Capitol Hill Day School provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, termination, compensation, and training.