Instructional Math Coach - NAMS

Instructional Math Coach - North Albany Middle School

APSTA Employment Opportunity

Monday – Friday

General Statement:

The mathematics coach is not an administrator or supervisor but is a collegial resource who provides job-embedded professional development to staff in an effort to enhance and expand a repertoire of strategies that can be used to support student achievement in Mathematics.

Responsibilities:

• Engage in ongoing professional development to study, research, and reflect upon researched and research-based best practices to share with leaders
• Attend team meeting to contribute to professional dialogue
• Work directly with teachers in classrooms and provide collegial support as well as mentorship in each subject/discipline (non-evaluative)
• Model and co-teach lessons, visit classrooms, view instruction, and engage in reflective discussion with classroom teachers
• Work directly with students in selected classrooms to provide instruction to students in small group settings to increase their understanding of taught concepts
• Evaluate, along with the teacher, student learning to determine appropriate instructional planning
• Support teachers in completing required paperwork
• Analyzes and distributes the data from a range of assessments, including New York State assessments
• Provides resources to classroom teachers