Bismarck Public Schools is seeking to hire an Instructional Coach at Simle Middle School beginning in August 2024.
Qualifications:
1.
Bachelor's degree in education with five years teaching experience
2.
A valid North Dakota teaching license
3.
Preference: Experience providing professional development to adult learners
Salary Classification: Teacher Salary Schedule
Reports to: Director of Professional Learning, Building Principal(s)
Job Goal: To afford teachers coaching in the content areas with the ultimate goal of improving teacher instruction and student learning.
Performance Responsibilities:
• Ability to maintain the confidentiality of schools, teachers and classrooms.
• Demonstrate knowledge of content and grade level ND content standards.
• Experience in using assessment results to guide instruction.
• Knowledge of research and best practices in instructional design and differentiating instruction.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to use technology and willingness to teach others.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Effective group presentation skills.
• Effective problem-solving skills.
• Support the value of education.
• Focus of this position will be to provide leadership and facilitation in three areas: support district teaching and learning practices within our buildings, building instructional coach, and district content expertise.
• Collaborate with principal and other teachers in the building to analyze findings to target professional development needs for individual teachers, grade-level groups, or the entire building.
• Provide support to individual classroom teachers through modeling, co-teaching, observing, and/ or coaching for core instruction and/or interventions.
• Assist the principal in providing building level professional development.
• Facilitate curriculum development and alignment teams at the building and district level.
• Possesses content expertise that enhances the group's ability to develop content-specific pedagogy across the district.
• Assist in the planning, delivering, and implementation of district level professional development.
• Keep abreast of new information, innovative ideas and instructional techniques.
• Maintain accurate records and filing systems for accountability and audit purposes.
• Ensure that all activities conform to district and state guidelines.
• Lead and facilitate building and district Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) teams in creating and strengthening its system(s).
• Support teachers in using progress monitoring tools that match intervention programs and support materials, finding ways to monitor student growth.
• Ensure teachers have relevant and timely access to the formative and/or summative assessment data that will help them make day-to-day instructional decisions.
• Provide ongoing training and support to ensure teachers and support personnel know how to administer, collect and analyze data efficiently and effectively.
• Provide excellence in customer service both internally and externally.
• Serve as a change agent.
• Communicate effectively with all the members of the school district and community.
• Other duties as assigned.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: This position follows the school calendar.
A teaching contract is 187 days.
External candidates may bring in up to 15 years of K-12 teaching experience.
EVALUATION: Performance of this job will be evaluated at least once per year collaboratively by the Principal of the school served and the district Director of Professional Learning.
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