Description
Title: Academic Coach
Reports to: Building Principal
Location: School
Position: Certified
Contract Days: 195
Retirement: TRS
FLSA Status: Exempt
Pay Scale: Teacher
Minimum Requirements:
Education: Valid Georgia Teaching certificate at the master's level or higher; Reading/Math Specialist or Endorsement preferred.
Experience: A minimum of three years teaching experience in the fields of mathematics or reading/language arts; Prior coaching experience; Experience leading professional learning activities.
Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities: Skills in working effectively with people; effective writing and speaking skills; ability to employ a variety of instructional strategies that connect the curriculum to the learners; ability to deal with multiple tasks.
Primary Function: Provides support of instruction designed to improve instructional practices and student achievement; provides faculty leadership and support to the administration for the implementation of the curriculum and instructional process;
Performance Responsibilities:
Collaborating
- Facilitating the development of the school's professional learning plan to target curriculum, assessment, and instruction.
- Collaborating with administration and teachers to design both formative and summative assessments for determining the impact of instruction on student achievement.
- Guiding the teachers through on-going, on-site professional learning to improve lesson design and classroom instruction, and the development of a quality teaching style.
- Serving on the District's Professional Learning Committee.
- Participating in professional networks at the RESA, Regional, State, and/or National level
Distributing Teacher Leadership
- Providing opportunities for individual teachers to develop leadership and facilitation skills.
- Providing guidance and professional learning in differentiating the curriculum and identifying strategies and how they align with the Tiers of the Pyramid of Interventions.
- Assessing team and classroom progress toward meeting district goals and school objectives.
- Guiding teams of teachers and individual teachers in analyzing student data to identify student learning goals by grade level/content.
Supporting Learning
- Guiding teams of teachers in the development and implementation of action plans that target a specific annual measurable objective and identify instructional strategies or interventions for meeting the objective.
- Facilitating on-going collaboration of teachers to effectively monitor and adjust curriculum to ensure equity and excellence of student learning.
- Facilitating teacher proficiency with the new strategies through classroom follow-up observations.
- Guiding teachers in planning and implementing strategies in a standard's based classroom.
- Ensuring that the progression of teacher skill development is aligned with changing student needs.
- Providing classroom follow-up with individual teachers based on teacher need by coaching, modeling, critiquing videos, co-teaching, etc.
- Designing on-going, site-based professional development where teachers support each other's growth and focus on the school's goals and needs
- Provide professional learning that supports Habersham County's instructional frameworks by showing its relevance, by monitoring its implementation and by evaluating its effectiveness.
Developing Self
- Engaging in professional learning to promote personal growth and better support the development of classroom, content area team, and whole school practices
Evaluation Instrument:
- In Praise of Learning