Instructional Coach - Harvest Preparatory Academy

Job Title/Position: Instructional Coach

Wage/Hour Status: Exempt/At will

Evaluator: Site Director

Site: As assigned

Position Summary:

The school-based Instructional Coach Teacher is an instructional leader who fosters personal and staff's development, growth of professional learning communities and facilitates job-embedded staff development. In collaboration with the director, school leadership and other stakeholders, the instructional coach supports the goal of building staff capacity to meet system-wide and local school initiatives to increase student learning.

Qualifications:

• Education:

• Hold a Master degree in education, training, subject field, curriculum or related field from an accredited College/University

• Certification:

• Texas teaching certification

Experience:

• Experience in modeling teaching behavior to adult learners in a variety of settings (e.g. workshops, seminars, courses, etc.)
• Minimum five years successful teaching experience

Special Knowledge and Skills:

• Evidence of instructional leadership (e.g. team leader, resource teacher, interdisciplinary resource teacher, department chair, system-wide committees, etc.)

Physical abilities

• Ability to stand for at least thirty minutes
• Ability to type, read, and sit for an extended time
• Ability to drive a vehicle to offsite meetings

Customer Contacts:

• Internal: Director, teachers, Arrow administrators

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Engaging teachers to develop a culture that:

• Fosters professional learning communities

• Promotes all staff as learners acquiring and building a repertoire of skills to meet the needs of every student

• Creating professional development opportunities, related to:

• Evidence of student learning

• Data analysis

• Instructional best practices

• Peer visits with reflection

• Modeling instruction for staff

• Local school walkthrough

• Collaborative team planning

• Individual professional growth

• Reflective practices

• Professional portfolio

• Individual Professional Development Plan (PDP)

• Demonstrating high expectations and modeling effective strategies for continuous school improvement

• Communicating and supporting implementation of system-wide initiatives

• Supporting the development, implementation and monitoring of the school plan based on:

• The school's vision and mission

• Meet the goals of the school

• Instructional best practices

• Classroom management system

• Individual professional growth

• Supporting job embedded staff development by:

• Allocating time

• Planning for the effective use of time

• Organizing, coordinating and documenting the utilization of allocated substitute time

• Assisting individual teachers to self-monitor their professional growth needs

Working environment

• Maintain emotional control under the stress of operations
• Travel as needed to training or secure supplies and materials
• Be flexible in assisting others
• Participate in overnight training, field trips with students, and professional conferences

This is professional position that uses professional judgment and may serve more than forty hours per week. Retirement is through the Teacher Retirement System (TRS) of Texas and not Social Security. TRS requires five years of participation before any retirement funds are vested. The Texas Workers Compensation program covers this position.

Federal employees shall not engage in text messaging (a) when driving GOV, or when driving POV while on official Government business, or (b) when using electronic equipment supplied by the Government while driving.