Middle School Instructional Coach

Job Description

Job Ttitle: Middle School Instructional Coach

Company: Cary School District 26


Description:

• Experience in providing curriculum leadership and innovative best practices.
• Ability to collect, interpret, and communicate data.
• Experience in leading professional development opportunities preferred.
• Ability to actively listen and utilize effective questioning techniques.
• Ability to communicate and present to various audiences concisely and through multiple methods.
• Is a team player, leader, organized, and confidential.
• Promotes district staff and can facilitate adult and children learners.
• Ability to utilize technology in coaching and teaching and has knowledge of available District resources.
• Able to perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and Board of Education policies.

RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:The desired outcomes of instructional coaches are to improve student success and extend staff instructional expertise through advancing collective responsibility, strengthening collaborative relationships, enhancing curriculum implementation, and maximizing use of resources.

• Plans and implements instructional programs in accordance with the District’s philosophy and curricular objectives.
• Ensure that teachers implement effective, research-based instructional strategies based on methodologies and best practices that can be used to deliver content.
• To ensure the implementation of the adopted curriculum. Facilitate curriculum teams to create, evaluate, and revise District curriculum.
• To increase the quality and effectiveness of classroom instruction through visiting teachers’ classrooms to model, co-teacher, or observe and conduct pre and post-visit conferences with teachers to facilitate reflection.
• To design collaborative, job-embedded, standards-based professional learning.
• Assists team of teachers and/or individual teacher to ensure that student achievement data is used to drive decisions at the classroom and school level.
• Work collaboratively will all stakeholders to plan, implement, assess school change initiatives to ensure alignment and focus of intended results.
• To increase instructional skills of teachers and support school-wide activities.
• Introduce new ideas, make observations, and question current practice to move beyond the status quo, and to challenge mental models.
• To expand teachers’ use of a variety of resources to improve instruction and to model continuous learning.
• Actively participate in grade-level/content area team meetings.
• Develop and facilitate high-quality, job-embedded professional development that supports the instructional framework, applicable curriculum, and formative assessments. May include providing support for peer observations and learning between classrooms/sites.
• Provide coaching and professional development through District initiatives such as SDW and in-service days.
• Build and maintain confidential relationships with teachers and teams. The conversations and interactions that the coach has with teachers must always remain confidential to maintain a high level of trust is maintained.
• Uses technology to promote learning, creativity, and collaboration while establishing clear objectives for all lessons, curricular units, and projects. Collaborates and facilitates ongoing staff development.
• Communicates and collaborates with instructional staff for the purpose of improving the overall quality of student outcomes and extending staff instructional expertise.
• Understanding of various formal and informal assessment strategies and using them to support the continuous development of staff and students.
• Demonstrates exemplary classroom practice and possesses a deep understanding of technology integration and quality learning principles.
• Perform such other appropriate duties as may be assigned by the Assistant Director of Learning Services.

PAY AND BENEFITS * Salary will be commensurate with professional training and experience according to salary schedule.

• Full health insurance program with major medical.
• Life insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement for approved graduate programs of study.

APPLICATION PROCESS Apply online:
Attach: cover letter, resume, transcripts, certificates, and four reference letters.

Salary:

Location: McHenry, IL

Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:48:05 GMT


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