Advanced Teaching Roles - Lead Teacher

ATR Lead Teacher

An ATR Lead Teacher (LT) is expected to intensively coach 2-10 teachers on their caseload, and teach students through various models. Responsibilities include leading a team of teachers and other support staff responsible for multiple classrooms, as well as teaching students within the team. The ATR Lead Teacher establishes each team member's roles and goals at least annually, determines how students spend time and organizes teaching roles to fit each teacher's strengths, content knowledge, and professional development goals.

The ATR Lead Teacher organizes the team to review student progress and change instruction to ensure high growth and academic progress for every child. The ATR Lead Teacher is accountable for the learning and development of all the teachers and students on their team. They must work in the classroom providing direct instruction for at least 30% of the instructional day and must be given a healthy balance of teaching/coaching time so they can perform all instructional responsibilities that are expected.

There are three levels of ATR Lead Teachers based on the number of teachers they are leading: ATR Lead Teacher 1 leads 2-3 teachers, ATR Lead Teacher 2 leads 4-6 teachers, and ATR Lead Teacher 3 leads 7-10 teachers. The ATR Lead Teacher performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities include strong knowledge of student growth and development, skilled in assessment and using its data for teaching, learning, and individualized instruction, ability to meet the needs of all adult learners, ability to plan, coordinate, and continuously improve instruction, ability to analyze situations, determine possible options, and make appropriate decisions based on the facts, ability to develop and compile records and reports, ability to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools, ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics of data, people or things, ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information, ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc.,

ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials, etc., using the prescribed format, ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions, ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions, ability to establish and maintain working relationships with parents, students, teachers, staff, and administrators, ability to manage instructional time, ability to manage student behavior, ability to consult with parents, teachers, and the community to enhance the learning of students, ability to monitor student performance, ability to interact within the educational environment, ability to perform non-instructional duties as assigned, understanding the growth and development of assigned students, experience with Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), experience with Smart board, Chromebooks, iPads, laptops, Smart Notebook, Makerspace, document cameras, and other instructional technologies, experience with Google Apps for Education.

Observing & coaching (30-40% of time) includes observing the teachers on the team and providing feedback and coaching to them to improve their teaching and improve student learning. Teaching (30-40% of time) includes modeling lessons, co-teaching with the teachers on the team, and providing instruction to groups of students on the team. Leading & organizing the team (5-10% of time) includes leading instructional planning, determining how students spend their time, and organizing teaching roles to fit teachers' strengths and students' needs.

Leading data-driven instruction (5-10% of time) includes leading the team to analyze data and student work samples to identify learning gaps and misconceptions and plan re-teaching. Leading professional development (5-10% of time) includes delivering professional development to teachers on effective teaching and classroom management strategies. Additional duties that contribute to student and/or teacher growth for their assigned team.

Physical requirements include standing, walking, using hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, reaching with hands and arms, talking or hearing. The employee occasionally is required to sit and stoop, kneel, or crouch. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

Must be able to perform light work exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or up 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Must possess the visual acuity to prepare data, work with record processes, and do extensive reading and research.

Minimum education and experience include active NC…