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CENTER-READING LEARNING ASSESSMENT - Graduate Assistant

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Position summary

Are you a graduate student whose first language is English?  We are looking for graduate students who would be graduate assistant to the Consultant/Coordinator.  Your responsibility is to learn all that is done to be a support to a reading specialist.  After your training, you should be able to conduct your own Orton Gillingham-multi-sensory based reading intervention sessions, and be able to train others who are learning.

Submit a resume, and 2 recommendation letters.  Email ucrla@andrews.edu.  You can call 269-471-3480.

Qualifications summary

English is your first language.

Pass a screening for following directions and hearing the sounds of the English language

Be a dedicated and patient individual who has a heart to teach and learn

Obtain training in Orton-Gillingham based multi-sensory reading intervention

Duties and responsibilities

Be consistent in meeting your scheduled appointments. Follow the Andrews University Code of Ethics as well as the dress code. 

Be willing to work with individuals with reading, learning, memory, and attention challenges.  A lesson plan is required for each session.

Supervisory responsibilities

You will be asked to supervise from time to time when your direct supervisor is absent.

Always supervise your students at all times.

Qualifications

English is your first language,

Training required in Orton-Gillingham based multi-sensory reading intervention.

Be willing to do menial responsibilities outside of your position.

Technical competencies

Pass a typing and filing test at HR.

Interpersonal interactions

We need someone with a pleasant demeanor, patient, and kind teacher as well as understanding and always project a Christian character.  Be willing to learn different things and accept suggestions from others.

Physical demands

Be healthy.  Being sick will make you absent, and absence or inconsistency is detrimental to progress.

Work environment

This is a learning center.  We are expected to know and master what we need to teach.