School Readiness Coach
$48,880–$56,160 year
On-siteDeLand, Florida, United States
Job Summary
Assess classroom teachers using the Teaching Strategies Fidelity Tool and CLASS observation tools three times annually to develop individualized mentoring plans. Build effective working relationships with teaching staff to support coaching, engage teachers in reflection, and model effective teaching strategies that increase school readiness. Provide Site Supervisors and managers with observation results for feedback, maintain confidentiality of all staff and child information, and establish recordkeeping systems to monitor program quality. Link teachers to resources for curriculum implementation and strategies for diverse groups of children.
Required Qualifications
- Baccalaureate or advanced degree in early childhood education
- Baccalaureate or advanced degree and coursework equivalent to a major relating to early childhood education
- Five years of experience teaching preschool-age (0-5 year old) children
- Experience in administering child development programs
- Experience working with children with special needs
- Valid Florida driver's license
- Ability to be insurable by Company's current carrier
- Subject to Federal, State and Local legal requirements/background checks/clearance for working with children
- Ability to work with limited direction
- Knowledge of organizational methods
- Skills in completing work with a high degree of accuracy
- Ability to make sound decisions in a crisis situation
- Skill in developing policies, procedures and/or systems for implementing programmatic functions
- Ability to evaluate programs and situations and make decisions for improvement
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- Ability to establish effective working relationships with people, including staff, parents, children and community members
- Knowledge of effective supervisory skills and methods
- Ability to analyze and interpret data
- Ability to use and operate a computer
- Skills in public speaking and public relations
- Ability to work with children with special needs
- Knowledge of disability and mental health issues and practices
- Ability to maintain staff, child and parent confidentiality
- Good eyesight (correctable)
- Hearing (correctable)
- Ability to squat
- Ability to walk
- Ability to handle
- Ability to grasp
- Ability to stretch/reach
- Ability to bend at the waist
- Ability to drive
- Ability to perform light lifting and/or carrying (up to 15 lbs.)
- Ability to push
- Ability to pull
- Ability to kneel
- Ability to balance
- Ability to turn
- Ability to feel
- Ability to perform medium lifting and/or carrying (up to 50 lbs.)
- Ability to play with children, which may include hopping, skipping, jumping, dancing, and twisting
- Ability to get up from a seated position on the floor or a low chair without hesitation
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