SEARCH

Reading Learning Specialist Resume Example

Love this resume?Build Your Own Now
READING LEARNING SPECIALIST
Professional Summary

Enthusiastic Reading Learning Specialist with superb leadership and communication skills. Easily cultivates trusting and productive relationships with students, parents, teachers and administration.

Core Competencies

  • Instructional Best Practices
  • IEP Implementation and Creation
  • Differentiated & Small Group Instruction
  • Common Core Curriculum

  • Literacy and Technology Integration
  • Response to Intervention
  • Student Progress Monitoring
  • Data Analysis & Assessment
Accomplishments

Led 15 students to improve Lexile test scores on the Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) by more than 100 Lexile points on average during the 2014-2015 academic year.


Led students to show two years' reading growth (7 points) on NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)


Increased students' Reading data on the NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) from Fall to Spring, performing in the top three of the network.


Professional Experience
07/2014 to Current
Reading Learning SpecialistCompany Name - City, State
  • Coordinate and facilitate the school's literacy intervention program.
  • Collaborate with teachers individually to identify the literacy needs of students, to set learning goals and targets, and to problem solve with teachers to develop best practices for continuous academic growth ofstudents in literacy.
  • Assist teachers with the collection of data, analysis of data results and supports the sharing of findings with all staff.
  • Review student achievement and assist with placing students in appropriate reading and writing intervention and support services.
  • Teach targeted literacy intervention to small groups of students daily using research-based strategies and resources.
  • Assist students using software and materials related to literacy programs.
  • Meet regularly with the classroom teacher to plan literacy instruction that correlates with the individual student's needs or as requested by the classroom teacher.
  • Designed and implemented individual education plans (IEPs.

01/2014 to 07/2014
Academic Collaboration TeacherCompany Name - City, State
  • Provided direct and indirect instructional support to students in a positive environment.
  • Employed special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
  • Modified the general education curriculum for students with disabilities based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.
  • Met with parents to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their individualized educational needs.
  • Developed plans for effective communication, monitoring, and follow-up of students in inclusive setting.
08/2008 to 01/2013
General Education TeacherCompany Name - City, State
  • Grades 1, 6-8 Balanced knowledge and the principles and concepts delineated in professional and state standards with an appreciation of all students' individuality, diversity, and cultures.
  • Utilized a variety of instructional methods including cooperative learning, discovery, and discussion.
  • Assessed student learning and modified lessons to create meaningful, authentic learning for students and prepared bulletin boards.
  • Actively participated in school events such as Magnet Recruitment, Open House, in-service, faculty meetings, PLC meetings, team meetings, and grade level meetings.
  • Administered standardized tests and worked cooperatively to communicate and address concerns with parents in conferences.
01/2012 to 07/2012
Behavior SpecialistCompany Name - City, State
  • Assessed individual needs, limitations, and potential, using observation, review of school records, data analysis, and consultation with parents and school personnel.
  • Provided behavior/socio-emotional support to students displaying challenging behaviors in the classroom setting following prescribed behavior plans and protocols.
  • Conducted pullout therapy sessions to implement individualized curriculum and goals.
  • Attended workshops, seminars, or professional meetings to remain informed of new developments in school psychology.
  • Implemented behavior treatment plans and protocols using behavior analytic principles and play therapy.
  • Promote an understanding of child development and its relationship to learning and behavior.
  • Provide consultation to parents, teachers, administrators, and others on topics such as learning styles and behavior modification techniques.
Education
2013
Master's: Special EducationUniversity of North Florida - City, State

Applied Behavior Analysis

2008
Bachelor of Science: SociologyFlorida State University - City, State, US
Professional Affiliations

Council for Exceptional Children

National Council of Teachers of English


Skills

academic support and intervention, conferences, consultation, data analysis, emotional support, instruction, materials, meetings, memory, personnel, PLC, Progress, protocols, psychology, reading, research, seminars, instruction,treatment plans, workshops

Build Your Own Now

DISCLAIMER

Resumes, and other information uploaded or provided by the user, are considered User Content governed by our Terms & Conditions. As such, it is not owned by us, and it is the user who retains ownership over such content.

How this resume score could be improved?

Many factors go into creating a strong resume. Here are a few tweaks that could improve the score of this resume:

84Good
Resume Strength
  • Formatting
  • Word choice
  • Typos

Resume Overview

School Attended

  • University of North Florida
  • Florida State University

Job Titles Held:

  • Reading Learning Specialist
  • Academic Collaboration Teacher
  • General Education Teacher
  • Behavior Specialist

Degrees

  • Master's : Special Education
    Bachelor of Science : Sociology

Similar Resumes

View All
Reading-Specialist-resume-sample

Reading Specialist

Ellenwood, Georgia