Working Location: Bukit Batok
Working Hours: 7 am to 4 pm (Mondays to Fridays)
Job responsibilities
1. Evaluation & Assessment
- Understand students' diverse learning and developmental needs, interests, abilities and potential through observations, diagnoses and discussions (with students, parents and colleagues), and adapt approaches accordingly
- Identify and prioritise goals for intervention in collaboration with the student/family/caregiver and multi-disciplinary team
- Formulate plans that are outcome based and relevant to students’ goals through planning, implementing, evaluating and managing interventions
2. Intervention
- Deliver literacy lessons in a small group setting (approximately 4-5 students in each class)
- Play an active role in the planning and developing of curriculum and teaching resources / instructional materials that meet the students’ varying needs
- Work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team with teachers, parents and all stakeholders in providing quality education and care for students. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Implementation of intervention programmes
- Developing and managing resources
- Conducting small group training (for teachers, parents, etc)
- Assess and monitor the progress of students in their charge
- Assess and monitor effectiveness of use of intervention programmes for students in their charge
- Writing and contributing to progress reports of students’ learning progress
3. Service Administration & Management
- Main inventories of all resources needed, with regular updating.
- Main records and documentation of assessments, interventions, progress monitoring, etc.
- Conduct in-house training programmes for internal and external stakeholders (e.g. teachers / parents / caregivers / volunteers).
- Participate and be involved in curriculum development, creation of resources, developing protocols, clinical guidelines, action research and pilot studies, in conjunction with the Head of Student Support/Principal.
Job Holder requirements and attributes
- Degree from a recognised university, in any discipline
- Trained in learning approaches, such as Orton-Gillingham, Lindamood-Bell, and/or other relevant remedial approaches
- At least 2 year of experience in providing learning support to children with literacy challenges
- Preferably at least 2 years of teaching experience and/or learning support experience for students at Primary Level
- Teaching qualifications or equivalent in Special Education is preferred
- Relevant teaching experience in mainstream schools / Special Education schools / working with children and youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder will be an added advantage
- Strong command of English (written and spoken)