Position Areas
Business Education
Description
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or equivalent coursework in early childhood education (30 hours minimum) with early education teaching experience.
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
Fair Labor Standards Act Status: Non-exempt
Reports To:
Assistant Superintendent and Director of Head Start
Job Goal:
Provide instructional support to all Early Education staff focusing on building teachers’ knowledge and skills in order to improve student achievement
Performance Responsibilities:
- Provide professional development follow-up training and support.
- Support curriculum development work, which includes ensuring internal and external alignment, developing curriculum maps and identifying resources.
- Work with building administrators and teachers in using data to improve individual and school performance.
- Mentor new and experienced teachers through intensive coaching as well as group coaching based upon specific criteria.
- Coaching will include observations, modeling, and debriefing and reflection opportunities between coach and classroom staff.
- Work with teachers on developing and implementing assessments effectively, both across the district and within classrooms.
- Serve as instructional coaches by modeling and supporting teachers in the implementation of all instructional improvements.
- Assists teachers in integrating technology into classroom instruction.
- Supports staff through buildings and age levels in implementing effective professional development.
- Promotes the sharing of teaching techniques and good instructional practice among Early Education staff throughout the district.
- Support principals in the area of curriculum and instruction.
- Work with teachers to meet the instructional needs of at-risk learners.
- Provide targeted assistance to buildings/staff who fail to meet state performance standards and/or federal standards.
- Maintains professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district and self-selected professional growth activities.
- Support the administration of group standardized tests in accordance with district testing program (does not include early education).
- Participates in curriculum development programs as required.
- Submit initial physical upon hire then every two (2) years thereafter
- Submit initial tuberculin screening upon hire
- Other duties as assigned
Terms of Employment:
The Early Education Teaching and Learning Coach will be employed for a ten (10) month position. Salary and work year to be established by the Board
Required Testing:
Pre-employment medical physical exam and essential functions test (EFT) required.
Work Environment/conditions:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works indoors with minimal temperature variations and under conditions with risk of injury and/or illness. The employee may also occasionally work with cleaning chemicals. The noise level of the work environment is usually moderate, but occasionally can be loud. Generally the job requires 5 % sitting, 50% standing, and 45% walking.
Physical Demands:
- The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers, and talk and hear.
- The employee is frequently required to bend at the neck.
- The employee is frequently required to climb or balance, reach, bend, crouch or crawl, squat, stoop, and kneel.
- The employee must frequently lift, carry and/or hold, push, or move up to 50 pounds.
Evaluation:
Performance of this job will be evaluated by immediate supervisor(s) in accordance with provisions of the Board’s policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.
At the following locations