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Memphis-Shelby County Schools
Instructional Coach
Edtech.com's Summary
Memphis-Shelby County Schools is hiring an Instructional Coach. The coach leads the literacy, math, or science program at Newberry Elementary, supporting teachers with classroom observations, demonstration lessons, and feedback on instructional practice. The role also uses assessment data to plan school-level professional development and student intervention.
Highlights
- Support teachers through conferences, classroom observations, feedback, demonstration lessons, and team teaching, and help with unit and lesson planning.
- Lead a team that reviews assessment data and develops a long-term literacy, math, or science plan for the school.
- Analyze state and district assessment data to target professional development needs, then design and run school-wide and individual workshops on content, curriculum, instructional methods, and assessment.
- Facilitate grade-level teams, teacher leaders, and curriculum focus groups, and share instructional best practices with school leadership.
- Coordinate intervention and support for students, and prepare weekly logs and reports documenting activities that improve teaching and learning.
- Master's degree in education, curriculum and instruction, or a related field, with an endorsement in the content area of assignment.
- Four years of classroom experience in the area of assignment and a valid Tennessee teaching license.
- Pay range of $50,811 to $88,799 per year.
Instructional Coach Full Description
Purpose and Scope:
The primary function of the position within the organization is to provide essential leadership for a school’s entire Literacy, Math, or Science program. The position is charged with expertise in reading and writing across content areas, communication, and instructional organization. The Instructional Curriculum Coach organizes and leads a team that develops literacy, math, or science plans for a school, guides teachers in embedding instructional strategies, analyzes data related to student mastery, and coordinates intervention and support for students. Essential Job Functions:
- upports teachers through conferences, observations, feedback, and analysis of student results, demonstration lessons, curriculum implementation, team teaching and instructional best practices.
- Shares effective instructional strategies with teachers both individually and through in-service workshops; assist with unit and lesson planning, observes teachers in the classroom as requested by principals; makes recommendations for improvement in performance as appropriate; offers advice and assistance as needed.
- Assists teachers and school administrators in meeting identified goals in instruction; maintains on-going communication with teachers, school leadership as appropriate.
- Collaborates with teachers to build a knowledge base of core content areas and repertoire of teaching skills to improve student achievement.
- Keeps abreast of developments in curriculum, instruction, educational/content area research and assist in determining their appropriateness for implementation at the school level.
- Analyzes state and district assessment data to help target professional development needs; designs, plans and implements school and individual-level professional development opportunities addressing instructional content, curriculum, instructional methods, and assessment in the classroom.
- Organizes and facilitates a team that reviews assessment data and develops long-term literacy, math, or science plan for a school. Organizes and facilitates grade level teams, teacher leaders, or curriculum focus group sessions.
- Communicates instructional best practices with school leadership to provide maximum teacher effectiveness.
- Leads analysis of data related to student achievement in Literacy, Math, or Science and supports staff in using this data in instructional decision making.
- Prepares weekly logs and/or reports documenting activities to support the improvement of teaching and learning at assigned school(s). Compiles data for and prepares various statistical, administrative and professional reports as required.
- Attends training, conferences, workshops and meetings as appropriate to enhance job knowledge and skills.
- Performs other related duties as assigned or directed.
Minimum Qualifications:
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Master’s Degree in Education, Curriculum and Instruction or other relevant field of study and requires an endorsement in the content area directly related to area of assignment; requires four (4) years of classroom experience related to the area of assignment and a valid state of Tennessee teacher licensure certification.
Degree Equivalency Formula:
Bachelor’s Degree= 4 years plus required years of experience.
Master’s Degree= 2 years plus required years of experience. Where Master’s degrees are required, years for Bachelor’s Degrees must be included.
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Master’s Degree in Education, Curriculum and Instruction or other relevant field of study and requires an endorsement in the content area directly related to area of assignment; requires four (4) years of classroom experience related to the area of assignment and a valid state of Tennessee teacher licensure certification.
Degree Equivalency Formula:
Bachelor’s Degree= 4 years plus required years of experience.
Master’s Degree= 2 years plus required years of experience. Where Master’s degrees are required, years for Bachelor’s Degrees must be included.
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