Elementary Instructional Coach

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university
• •Minimum of five years of successful teaching experience
• •Current North Carolina Professional Educator's License
• •Experience in research-based instructional practices
• •Previous coaching or teacher leadership experience
• •Effective communicaton, collaboration, and interpersonal skills for building an environment with a common instructional focus, promoting initiatives and conveying expectations
• •Ability to design and deliver quality professional development for administrators and teachers
• •Outstanding presentation and facilitation skills
• •Demonstrated ability to communicate in a professional manner both orally and in writing
• •Demonstrated strength in organization, communication skills, and efficiency in meeting deadlines
• •Demonstrated ability to function as a positive collaborative member of a team
• •Demonstrated interest and engagement in professional learning and reflection
• •Deep knowledge of and experience with instructional strategies, conditions of learning, and assessment-driven instruction (teaching/learning process)
• •Regularly requires the ability to sit and talk or hear
• •Frequently requires the ability to walk and use fingers to operate tools or controls
• •Occasionally requires the ability to stand and reach with hands and arms
• •Specific visual abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• •Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people, or things
• •Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information, including receiving instructions, assignments, and/or directions
• •Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables
• •Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, articles, proposals, manuals, legislation, graphs, charts, etc.
• •Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, charts, graphs, statistical analysis, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style
• •Requires the ability to speak to people with poise, voice control, and confidence
• •Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, and to follow oral and written instructions
• •Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently through a variety of technical and professional languages, including psychometric, statistical, and educational research terminology

Desired Qualifications

• •Desire to continue career improvement
• •Advanced degree from a regionally accredited college or university
• •Eight or more years of successful teaching experience
• •Deep knowledge of specific content area (Reading/ELA or Math/Science)