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Long-Term Substitute - Middle School Learning Specialist - October 2024-December 2, 2024

October 01, 2024

Oakton, VA
Full-Time

Description:

When passion and impact come together, an institution becomes more than a place to work. As many of our teachers and staff will tell you, Flint Hill is a place where they are challenged and inspired, and yet it still feels like home.

At Flint Hill, we believe in redefining what educational excellence looks like. Always curious, every day, we ask questions like, “Imagine if?” and “What’s possible?” And we encourage our students to do the same.

Our teachers’ expertise and commitment to innovative teaching are complemented by a personal approach that emphasizes respect and communication.

Flint Hill understands that adolescents long to be accepted while simultaneously wanting to be their own person. We pay special attention to these crucial years of exploration and self-discovery, offering broad and deep learning opportunities that both challenge and support students. Our Middle School, grades 7-8, believes there is no limit to students’ academic capacity—helping them uncover their passions and prepare them for a successful transition to high school and beyond.

The Middle School Learning Specialist supports the experience of Flint Hill students and faculty and embraces the mission, vision, and core values of the school, the Flint Hill Statement of Institutional Equity and Inclusion and the Portrait of the Flint Hill Student.

This long-term sub position has an immediate start date and ends December 2, 2024.

Responsibilities and Duties:

  • Support the academic growth of students who have been or may be diagnosed with learning differences and/or attentional challenges within a student-centered academic coaching support model. Participate in grade-level and/or divisional student support team meetings

  • Oversee the implementation of students’ classroom accommodations to support students.

  • Collaborate with teachers about students’ academic growth.

  • Communicate constructively with parents.

  • Support teachers by offering resources, assistance, advice, and training to enable faculty to better meet the needs of all learners. 

  • Maintain detailed records related to an assigned caseload of students to document academic progress and needs.

  • Analyze psychoeducational evaluations, summarize findings for faculty and parents and create and/or update formal learning profiles and accommodations plans.

  • Remain current on educational research pertaining to learning differences and instructional practices.

  • Perform all responsibilities expected of faculty (for example, supervising students outside of class times, attending faculty meetings, etc.).

  • Skillfully manage multiple concurrent tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment 

  • Leverage strong analytical, and problem-solving, communication, organizational, and planning skills.

  • Demonstrate strong professional judgment and effective communication (written and oral) skills.

  • Utilize a collaborative, team-oriented approach to student and faculty interactions.

  • Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications: 

An undergraduate degree in Special Education or a related field; a minimum of 5 years of experience teaching or as a Learning Specialist at the middle or upper school levels; a minimum of 3 years using current and emerging technologies to support learning; an advanced degree is preferred.

Experience using leading technologies such as Google Suite and Apple applications and products, training in Developmental Designs or other social-emotional curricula, fluency in Universal Design for Learning and training and education in building and sustaining inclusive classrooms.  

Contact:

Office of Human Resources

Please complete Flint Hill's online application here:

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