Youth: Literacy Teacher - Summer job - 8 weeks/10 hrs Job at ARC of South Florida, Miami Gardens, FL

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  • ARC of South Florida
  • Miami Gardens, FL

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

About our agency:

The Arc of South Florida Inc. is a nonprofit private agency serving the community since 1953. Our mission is to ensure the rights of all persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities through effective advocacy and to provide specialized programs and services to help clients lead meaningful and fulfilling lives. We believe in the potential of each individual's ability to live, work, learn and play in their communities. Are you looking for a job where what you do makes an impact in your community? Are you seeking a position that makes you feel good about the work you do every day and where you know you are making a difference, even behind the scenes? Working at The Arc is more than just a job - it's an opportunity to be part of something bigger! If you want to translate your talent, passion, and commitment to helping people with disabilities, families, and the community, you might be what we are looking for.

Details:

  • 10 Hours - Part-time
  • Eight weeks Summer Camp
  • $30 hr
  • Begins June 10, 2024 - August 02, 2024

Responsibilities and Duties:

Reading Curriculum or Material

  1. Identify reading resources needed for individual reading plans for frustrational readers in K – 5th grades.
  2. Select and order reading materials and resources for the children by requesting items through the Site Supervisor.
  3. Provide strategies to create a comprehensive DLI reading experience for the children.

Interaction with Children

  1. Identify frustrational readers with reading challenges according to their ORF Fluency or MAZE Comprehension tests.
  2. Set an intervention goal for each student such as a focus on Phonemic awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, and/or Comprehension during Differentiated Literacy Instruction sessions, depending on the child’s individual reading needs
  3. Determine timespan and focus of intervention.
  4. Monitor the progress of intervention students.
  5. Re-group intervention students approximately every 6-8 weeks.

Program Implementation and Supervision

  1. Meet with Frustrational readers at least 3 x week for 30 minutes during the school year after school.
  2. Meet with Frustrational readers at least 4 times a week for 30 minutes during summer.
  3. Meet with children individually or in small groups no larger than 5 students.
    1. Track daily attendance of students attending Differentiated Literacy Instruction and submit to Site Supervisor at required intervals.
    2. Maintain Differentiated Literacy Instruction with children even if scores improve at the mid-point test.
      1. Add new children to the DLI after the mid-point if their scores are lower in the frustrational zone.

Interaction with families

  1. Share reading progress with families.
  2. Serve as a resource to families with reading strategies.

Interaction with staff

  1. Support classroom teachers and serve as a role model to them in implementing new reading strategies to help differentiate whole class literacy activities.
  2. Cooperate with co-teachers and support staff including Site Supervisor, Site Directors, Coordinators, Primary Service Coordinators, therapists, and paraprofessionals.
  3. Follow therapists’ recommendations for best practices in positioning and implementation of the therapeutic activities in the differentiated instruction reading groups.
  4. Follow and provide recommendations and requests from and to supervisors including Teachers, Nurse, Site Director, Site Supervisor, Coordinator and Program Director.
  5. Cooperate with community partners.
  6. Develop and maintain positive working relationships with others.

Interactions with contract agencies

  1. Maintain health and safety standards as outlined in the Health Department Guidelines.
  2. Maintain all paperwork required by all funding sources such as The Children’s Trust, and The Arc of South Florida including but not limited to: Reading fluency and comprehension pre/mid/post-tests, Individual Reading Plans, Differentiated Instruction attendance, incident reports; and disability information.
  3. Maintain professional appearance and demeanor in all interactions with outside agencies and organizations.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Arts/Science in Education or other with field experience required
  • Teaching: 2 year teaching reading (Mandatory)
  • Complete DCF Training hours in a specified period of time
  • Bilingual (Preferred)
  • Level 2 Background check and drug test
  • Authorization to work in the USA
  • Must be able to move, lift, carry, push, pull, and place objects weighing less than or equal to 10 pounds without assistance.

What we offer:

  • Professional Training Opportunities
  • Family-friendly environment
  • The Opportunity to Make a Difference in the Community and the Organization

Job Type: Part-time SEASONAL

COVID-19 considerations:
The Arc of South Florida, Inc. follows all DCF and CDC guidelines for COVID safety.

EEOC:

The Arc of South Florida Inc. 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.

Job Tags

Contract work, Part time, Seasonal work, Local area,

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