Communicative Disorders - Reading Intervention

at  Evoke Learning

Evoke is a learning and wellness centre that supports neurodiverse students striving to achieve their full academic potential and enhance their social-emotional well-being. Our approach is holistic. As a student-centred service, we understand that everyone’s learning journey is unique, and we consider the student to be the expert in their own life. Our goal is to move students from underperformance to personal achievement, providing them with the support to reach their academic goals.
Evoke works with many types of students, including:
· Students who are struggling academically.
· Neurodiverse students diagnosed with learning disabilities, ADHD, executive dysfunction, ASD, and/or giftedness.
· Students who are underperforming and have much greater potential to achieve their goals.
· Learners who require intensive instruction or additional time to process information, without feeling stigmatized in the classroom.
· Students who are capable of completing academic work but need to acquire strategies and skills to increase their success.
· Students with extraordinary goals.
Evoke Learning is growing, again, and currently seeking a part-time communicative disorders professional to provide reading intervention tutoring sessions, remotely, to struggling readers. This is a part-time independent contractor position that requires availability five days a week, Monday-Friday, for a minimum of 10 hours a week. Candidates must have availability during Evoke’s primary reading program hours, which include weekday afternoons between 3:30pm and 7:00pm (EST). Only a very limited number of students are available for reading remediation during daytime hours, apart from the summer months. Evoke’s reading program runs all calendar year long.
Reading remediation tutors provide targeted, explicit, systematic instruction aligned with the science of reading to improve literacy outcomes for students. Using Evoke Learning’s reading remediation curriculum, reading remediation tutors are responsible for delivering lesson plans, and assessing and monitoring student progress to ensure intervention is strategic and measured.
If you are inspired, talented and motivated to be a partner and role model that helps students see and achieve their fullest potential, we offer an environment that will allow you to thrive and grow personally and professionally, while truly making a difference in the lives of the students you work with.
This is a remote position, and all service are delivered one-to-one, virtually. Evoke does not offer group programming.

REQUIREMENTS:

As a reading remediation tutor, you will:

• Provide reading intervention to students, virtually, one-to-one, from Grade 1 to 12, five days a week for 30 minutes per student, using interactive online tools and Evoke’s research-informed reading remediation program curriculum.
• Maintain clinical notes and set SMART goals.
• Work directly with students who have been identified as having reading skill deficits.
• Provide students with immediate feedback.
• Monitor, evaluate, and communicate student progress to Evoke and student families.
• Ensure student achievement.
• Conduct regular progress assessments, used by Evoke Learning.
• Communicate directly with families and Evoke Learning, in support of the student’s goals and progress.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Candidates MUST possess an undergraduate degree in education, linguistics, psychology, education psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, communication sciences and disorders, speech-language-hearing sciences or a related field.
• Candidates MUST possess a post graduate certificate as a communicative disorders assistant, speech-language pathology assistant, or a communicative disorders technician.
• A postgraduate (masters) degree in speech-language pathology, communication sciences and disorders, linguistics, occupational therapy or a related field is an asset.
• A deep understanding of the mechanics of language (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics).
• Experience and interest in working with neurodiverse learners.
• Understand and support neurodiversity affirming practices.
• Knowledge of research-informed reading intervention based on the science of reading.
• Experience that provides demonstrated excellence in tutoring, teaching, mentoring, counselling, delivering programming and/or curriculum to children and/or youth, including neurodiverse learners.
• Exceptional individual initiative, patience, good judgement, creativity, and theory of mind.
• Experience and a significant comfort level working online.
• Tech savvy - hardware computer skills, productivity software (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), presentation software (Google Slide), Web applications (Google Docs, Google Drive), basic software skills.
• Familiar and comfort level with teleconference platforms; Google Hangouts and Zoom, and using online tools (interactive whiteboard, electronic letter tiles) to deliver programming.
• The proven ability to understand and effectively use techniques to engage and motivate students, such as learners with ADHD, learning disabilities, and ASD, online.
• Excellent communication, judgement, and organization skills.
• Excellent English language speaking, reading, and writing skills.

Please refer the Job description for details