School Readiness Coach
$48,880–$56,160 year
On-siteDaytona Beach, 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 reflection, planning, and curriculum implementation while modeling effective teaching strategies. Provide workshops and technical assistance on early childhood development topics in large, small, or individual group settings. Maintain confidentiality of all observations and staff data while establishing recordkeeping systems to monitor program quality and aggregate data for site needs. Link teachers to resources for culturally and developmentally diverse groups and provide results to site supervisors and managers.
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
- Ability to get up from a seated position on the floor or a low chair without hesitation
- 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
- Occasional travel to other counties
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