Early Childhood Class Coach; Part-Time

Early Childhood Class Coach (Part-Time)

Jefferson Parish Schools STUDENT SUPPORT - PRE-K - Harvey, Louisiana

Position

Description:

• The Early Childhood CLASS Coach ensures young children receive high-quality instruction. The Early Childhood CLASS Coach leads the development and improvement for teachers through planning, modeling, observing, and providing feedback.
• The Early Childhood CLASS Coach provides training and support to schools and early childhood sites.
• The Coach serves as the instructional expert and provides support on assessment, curriculum, high-quality interactions, and the science of teaching in early childhood education.

Reports to: Director of Network Services

Scope of Responsibility:

• Provide high-quality professional development around effective early education practices and the foundations of effective interactions in early education.
• Provide feedback, engage in one‑on‑one coaching, and model best practices.
• Coordinate and support instructional leaders and teachers to fully implement high quality interactions.
• Identify where high‑quality interactions and built‑in supports are not being maximized.
• Model and teach new effective interactions with embedded instructional support strategies.
• Coach teachers on using high‑quality, evidence‑based assessments to determine the most effective interventions, including full implementation of Teaching Strategies GOLD.
• Facilitate professional development for teachers.
• Observe teachers, provide feedback, and identify next steps to improve instructional support strategies for the purpose of support and not evaluation.
• Monitor and coordinate interventions conducted by the classroom teacher.
• Model and teach exemplar interactions when appropriate.
• Support lesson preparation using high‑quality curriculum.
• Model and support high‑quality interactions with students.
• Analyze data, identify trends, and support teachers to adjust instruction based on data.
• Communicate a belief in all students’ abilities to become successful learners.
• Attend all required meetings and trainings.
• Communicate with leadership team on school‑wide curriculum progress.

Physical Involvement:

• Movement throughout early childhood and preschool classrooms is required most of each workday.
• Must be able to operate office equipment.
• Standing, walking, reaching, bending, and lifting up to 10 pounds is sometimes required. Ability to provide own transportation to schools, work locations, and meeting sites.
• Mobility skills necessary to access a variety of work locations, including locations not on the ground floor.

Skills and

Qualifications:

Successful candidates will be detail-oriented, independent self-starters who demonstrate an unwavering commitment to raising student achievement and who have a record of high performance in challenging situations and will also demonstrate:

• Minimum of three (3) years teaching experience as a certified Early Childhood teacher.
• Knowledge and experience with Frog Street’s approach to instruction for young children.
• Knowledge and experience with a CLASS approach to effective instructional support interactions.
• Successful and documentable experience that impacted student achievement.
• Strong knowledge of how young children develop and learn.
• High degree of professionalism with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities while consistently demonstrating sound judgment and disciplined thinking.
• Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to organize and motivate people and to establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others.
• Possess integrity, initiative, and good moral character.
• Demonstrate ability to relate to students, staff, administration, parents, and community.
• Possess desirable attributes of personality, enthusiasm, and interpersonal skills.
• Proven track record of working with diverse individuals at all levels to drive decision-making and results.
• Ability to be visionary and strategic is essential.
• Understanding of regulations regarding the operation of Louisiana schools including but not limited to Bulletins 741,,130, 140, and 1508.

Desirable

Qualifications:

• Master’s or advanced degree in Education preferred.

Compensation:

• JP Schools offers a competitive salary that is commensurate with experience.
• JPSchools also offers a competitive benefits package.

Position Type: Part‑Time

Job Category: Classroom Teacher >
Preschool

• Citizenship, residency or work visa required.