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

• 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.

• 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.

• Engaging in professional learning to promote personal growth and better support the development of classroom, content area team, and whole school practices

• In Praise of Learning