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JOB DESCRIPTION: INSTRUCTIONAL COACH
SALARY SCHEDULE: CERTIFIED TEACHER SCHEDULE
DEPARTMENT: TEACHING AND LEARNING
FLSA STATUS: EXEMPT
SAFETY-SENSITIVE: NO
POSITION SUMMARY:
To improve teacher instructional practices in all disciplines while supporting student achievement.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
- Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university
- Current Oklahoma Teaching Certificate
- Ability to design and deliver quality professional development for teachers
- Minimum of three years of successful teaching experience
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Facilitates teachers’ understanding and implementation of the Oklahoma Academic Standards.
- Exhibits a high level of ethics and confidentiality in regard to student and teacher records and classroom
- Partners with teachers by setting goals, sharing strategies, and using data to monitor progress towards goals
- Develops teachers’ capacity to collect and analyze multiple sources of data to reflect on their instructional practice and improve student learning
- Provide sustained mentoring to classroom teachers
- Creates detailed coaching plans that include focused goals and measures of success while providing direct and ongoing feedback to achieve goals
- Provides quality professional development on best practices and resources aligned with district curriculum and initiatives.
- Increases quality of instruction through collaborating, co-planning, coaching cycle completion, fostering trusting relationships with staff, and supporting the learning process.
- Executes and collaborates with administrators on the Title I school-wide plan, including maintaining site Title I budgets and purchases, including tutor time sheets, stipends, quotes from vendors, bids and requisitions, inventory, and justification of purchases aligned to the Title I school-wide plan
- Additional duties that may be assigned by the immediate supervisor or above.
LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR SKILLS:
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos. Ability to compose and write grammatically correct correspondence and memos.
REASONING ABILITY:
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, schedule form, or blueprint form.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit.
The employee must frequently lift and/or move up or more than 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to or more than 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to fume or airborne particles. The employee frequently works in high, precarious places and in outside weather conditions. The employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts, extreme cold (including outdoors), extreme heat (including direct sunlight), risk of electrical shock and vibration.
The noise level in the work environment will vary from somewhat loud to extremely loud.
To ensure continuity of services, a different work location may be necessary in the event of a health crisis or disruptive situation that requires the closing of school and/or office buildings. An employee’s eligibility for a varied work location will be determined by the superintendent of schools. Expectations and guidelines for this change will be distributed by the employee’s supervisor, based on his/her role and responsibilities.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Employee may occasionally be required to supervise a varying number of employees in the overall direction, coordination, and completion of tasks as assigned.
DISCLAIMER:
Please note that job descriptions are not intended, and should not be construed, to be exhaustive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with a job. They are intended to be accurate reflections of those principal job elements essential for making fair hiring and pay decisions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
