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Reading Specialist

Job Title: Reading Specialist

Past Experience: Minimum 2 years in any of the above sectors or roles that involved interacting with children

Education: Post-Graduate Degree in Journalism, Literature, Arts, Theatre, Communication, Education, Media Studies

Overall Responsibilities:

The role of Reading Specialist at PYP (Grades 1-5) at Neev Academy is to grow readers for life, who read for pleasure, personal growth, and to explore their passions.

The Reading Specialist works closely with students to ensure they have a sustained interest in reading and that they begin to make informed choices about their reading which aids their critical thinking.

Specific Responsibilities:

- The role will involve:

  • working at the PYP library and interacting with students from Grades 1-5 on a daily basis
  • use of updated research and implementation of best practices to create choice; help students arrive at their individualised reading goals and goals of the reading program; as well as personalise reading sessions
  • conducting effective reading sessions using age-appropriate books/articles, utilising various reading strategies, activities, to a pre-approved framework/structure
  • building a rich and diverse book collection containing award-winning, critically acclaimed, and newly released titles for the relevant age and interest-groups
  • collaborate with teaching teams to act upon how the Library may support academic work by finding appropriate resources; coordinating expert visits linked to literature; strengthen research practices
  • moulding the library as a hub of learning by drawing the community together through purposeful displays, activities, and engagements
  • actively participate and contribute to community-reading endeavours such as World Read-Aloud Week as well as the Neev Literature Festival (NLF) and the NLF Reading
  • Challenge, including providing logistical support; small group coordination; devising author interactions; and fulfilling any other requirements that may come up in this regard
  • contributing to administrative processes at the library such as dynamic shelving; active weeding of outdated and irrelevant resources

Specific Skills and Dispositions:

  • Be a voracious reader oneself, who reads across genres and age-groups
  • Have an active interest in children's literature, both Indian and global
  • Be deeply interested in how children grow as readers; have strong communication, interpersonal, and research skills, to convey one’s enthusiasm for reading to teachers and parents
  • Be positive, energetic, open-minded, flexible to trying out new approaches to inculcate a love for reading in children and young adults
  • Be process-oriented, to understand and better implement library cataloguing and shelving systems
  • Be an active participant during meetings on school policies, documenting your work as well as students' reading journeys, and paying attention to detail
  • Training or prior experience with reading or storytelling is an added bonus