Job Description
Job Purpose:
● 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.
● The role of Reading Specialist at PYP or MYP is to grow readers for life, who read for pleasure, personal growth, and to explore their
passions.
Main Functions:
● Working at the PYP library and interacting with students from Grades 1-5 (or) the
Senior School library from Grades 6-12 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 session.
● Conducting effective reading sessions using age-appropriate books/articles,
utilising various reading strategies, activities, to a pre-approved
framework/structure.
● 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active weeding of outdated and irrelevant resources.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 yourself, 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
● Building a rich and diverse book collection at the library 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.
