Posted 5/17/2024
Start Date: August 26, 2024
Salary Range: $75,000 – $90,000 and commensurate with experience
About our school:
Bay Ridge Prep, a NYSAIS-accredited, independent, college preparatory school, is dedicated to enriching the intellectual curiosity, creativity, and emotional intelligence of the learner.
About the position:
For our Upper School Bridge Program and Achieve Program, Bay Ridge Prep seeks an experienced educator to work as a learning specialist for students with learning difficulties who are preparing for college. The students’ learning needs may include language processing difficulties, specific learning disabilities, executive function deficits, or other specific cognitive issues that can impact learning.
Specific activities of this position will include:
- Teach English classes for students with learning disabilities who may have both basic and more advanced reading and writing skills.
- Provide direct instruction to improve executive function skills in small groups in a mentoring class.
- Help teach cognitive strategies and coordinate with other teachers to help these skills generalize to the classroom.
- Support classroom instruction in small group and individual contact by helping students complete papers and projects and prepare for exams.
- Provide students with accommodations (e.g., reader, scribe, extra time, etc.) as stipulated in their IEP or Section 504 Plan.
- Engage in individual sessions with select students as needed.
- Work with Bridge Program and Achieve Program staff to create appropriate goals based on each student’s unique reading and writing strengths and needs.
- Assess the effectiveness of the interventions through regular progress monitoring.
- Participate in meetings regarding students in the Achieve Program and Bridge Program as well as faculty meetings.
- Serve as a mentor to select students in the program.
Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Education – focus in special education preferred.
- Valid NYS certification in Special Education (Grades 7-12) or a related field, or be eligible for such certification.
- Understanding of the needs of students with learning disabilities.
- Able to develop a good rapport with students with learning challenges.
- Classroom teaching experience that includes teaching students with learning difficulties.
- Training in and experience with research-based strategies and interventions for reading and writing skills. Preference for someone knowledgeable in one or more of the following reading interventions: Wilson, Orton-Gillingham, PAF.
- Be experienced with classroom management techniques.
- Knowledge of and experience with teaching executive functioning strategies is a plus.
Work environment and Physical Demands
This job requires the ability to maintain the physical capacity required to navigate the school environment and to ensure the safety of the students. The ability to open filing cabinets and bend or stand for long periods of time, as necessary. Classroom locations vary based on student schedules and staff may need to teach from different rooms. This role routinely uses standard classroom and office equipment such as computers, phones, electronic devices, photocopiers, filing cabinets, etc. Travel between school buildings is necessary on occasion, scheduled with advanced notice, and are within walking distance from each other.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a ten-month, full-time, in-person position that follows the academic calendar. After school work (weekly faculty meetings, clubs, activities, student meetings, etc.) and evening work (parent-teacher conferences, etc.) may be required as job duties demand and will be scheduled in advance.
How to apply:
Qualified applicants should e-mail their résumé and statement of educational philosophy to jobs@bayridgeprep.org with the subject line “Learning Specialist”. No phone calls or faxes, please.
Due to the high number of résumés received for each job posting, we are unable to respond to each inquiry. The school administration will determine which candidates have a strong potential to join our staff and will make direct contact with those candidates.
We appreciate your interest in Bay Ridge Preparatory School, an equal opportunity and inclusive employer that does not discriminate on any basis protected by federal, state or local laws.