Title: Instructional Coach
Reports to: Executive Director
Position Summary: The Instructional Coach will provide essential leadership for the school’s overall instructional program through support, training, and coaching to build school and teacher capacity to increase student achievement.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
Curriculum and Instruction
Ensure implementation of state curriculum standards, district instructional models, and technology.
Work with teachers in the development of daily, weekly, and unit lesson plans.
Assist teachers with integrating project-based learning practices into their content instruction.
Model best instructional practices through actual classroom demonstrations in rigorous technology-rich, project-based learning environments
Introduce teachers to new methods, materials, and instructional strategies that, through research, have proven to increase student achievement.
Work with teachers individually, in collaborative teams, and/or with departments, providing practical support on a full range of instructional strategies.
Participate in regularly scheduled grade-level, subject-specific, and team-planning sessions that focus on curriculum, instruction, and student work.
Assist teachers in incorporating the use of technology.
Regularly visit classrooms to collect informal data on teacher use of instructional strategies and student engagement with the strategies as well as to increase teachers’ knowledge and skill in delivering instruction.
Engage in reflective dialogue with teachers before and after visits to:
clarify lesson objectives, including teachers’ personal goals in delivering the lesson.
identify the successes and challenges encountered in the lesson and what could be improved in terms of lesson content and delivery.
focus on next steps, including how teachers might adjust instruction and
instructional settings to meet a range of instructional needs of individual students and to foster learning in the content area.
ADEPT Evaluations:
Assessment
Assist teachers in analyzing assessment results to identify trends, patterns, and instructional deficiencies.
Lead data sessions that examine both formative and summative assessment results and suggest and monitor intervention strategies and materials for struggling students.
Analyze formative and summative assessments in order to ensure assessments are able to inform instruction and become a tool for improvement.
Provide support and training to identify needed changes in classroom instructional strategies based upon the analysis of the data.
Professional Development
Apply concepts of adult learning and motivation, including varied group configurations and presentation formats to engage adult learners as well as identification of appropriate professional development settings and schedules.
Provide collaborative and one-on-one instructional coaching and facilitate teacher inquiry and related professional development.
Participate fully in professional development for coaches, including peer observations, professional research and reading, and inquiry sessions to stay abreast of developments in best classroom practices, technology, and assessment.
Collaboration
Work collaboratively and communicate effectively with administrators, teachers, and other school staff to strengthen all aspects of the instructional program.
Work with administrators, teachers, and PLC’s to plan and schedule meetings and staff development sessions based on staff input and assessment of what students in various grade levels and content areas need to work on to meet school goals.
Skills & Knowledge:
Leadership and soft skills:
Technical skills:
Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Work Environment:
School, community, and office settings
Work Hours:
This is a full-time, 40 hours per week, 230 Day position.
Travel:
Some travel to other school, community settings, professional development, workshops
EEO Statement:
Polaris Tech Charter School is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and does not discriminate on any legally recognized basis, including, but not limited to, race, age, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other basis recognized by federal, state or local law.
Education & Experience:
Education: Licensed SC teaching certificate – required, ADEPT Certified - required
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