About this role
Job Title: Instructional Coach
Location: Jackson-Via Elementary School
Reports to: Principal
FLSA Status: Exempt
Summary
To positively impact student achievement and professional learning through coaching and demonstrating best instructional practice.
Essential Functions
- Effectively use a coaching model to assist in the continuous improvement of instruction.
- Support teachers in the implementation of division-level initiatives and programs.
- Collaborate with the principal to determine what instructional support is needed to achieve the goals of the school improvement plan.
- Assist teachers in integrating highly effective instructional practices into their plans and lessons.
- Work with administrators and teachers to interpret student achievement data and determine related instructional needs.
- Observe, access resources, collect data, provide feedback, and demonstrate lessons in classrooms as requested.
Required Qualifications
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively with adult learners based on their changing needs.
- Strong planning and organizational skills; ability to manage multiple projects.
- Working knowledge of SOL content and skills across content areas and grade levels K-8.
- Demonstrated ability to transfer research-based practices into classroom instruction.
- Strong, demonstrated belief in teacher efficacy and the power of continuous learning.
Desired Qualifications
- Knowledge of and/or experience in using the cognitive coaching process.
- Ability to model instructional strategies, including differentiation techniques, across content areas and grade levels.
- Skills in building collaborative relationships with principals and with teachers at all levels of experience.
- Knowledge and experience using a variety of assessment tools and analyzing student data.
- Ability to maintain relationships, which are supportive of both teachers and administrators, with student learning as the focus.
- Acts as a resource who is skillful, reliable, credible, and accessible.
- Communicate the goals and processes of the coaching model, and use it effectively in working with teachers.
Education & Experience
- A valid Virginia teaching license and at least three years of successful classroom experience.
- Preferred Supervision and Administration endorsement.
Report To: Building Principal
Contract Length
220 Days