FTE Instructional Coach

Instructional Coach

Our Mission:
North Shore School District 112 is a transformative learning organization where curiosity inspires minds, innovation shapes the future, and students, staff, and families engage to create a kind and connected community that is committed to excellence. Primary Function:
The Instructional Coach will work as a colleague with classroom teachers to support student learning. The Instructional Coach will develop the capacity of individuals and teams to continuously improve and expand research-based effective instruction that will enable staff to diagnose student needs more analytically, plan more productively, and teach more effectively. In order to meet this purpose, the instructional coach will provide support that is based on the collaboratively identified goals and needs of individual teachers and teams of teachers.

General Responsibilities:

• Classroom Supporter (Partner):
  Co-teaches and models strategies and techniques that ensure rigorous core instruction for all learners. Co-plans instructional units with teachers using backward design and effective instructional practices. Observes teachers and provides feedback with a focus on students' academic achievement. Conducts teacher-driven conversations to promote reflection and to identify next steps. Provides timely and specific feedback that helps learners grow and improve instructional practices.
• Instructional Specialist:
  Understands effective instructional practices, instructs teachers in these practices, and models the practices. Supports teachers' individual and group efforts to meet all students' needs and to implement core instruction. Supports teachers in using differentiated instruction. Helps teachers select and implement appropriate instructional practices. Leads district and building professional development. Leads professional development for new staff during new teacher orientation.
• Data Coach:
  Supports teachers' use of data to determine appropriate instruction. Helps teachers understand state standards for proficiency at all grade levels and in all content areas. Helps teachers use multiple sources of data. Helps teachers use student work to identify information about their learning (formative assessment). Facilitates individual and group reflections about student growth.
• Learning Facilitator:
  Develops relationships with adults that lead to increased rigor, change in practice, reflection, and school wide collective efficacy that promote student achievement. Plans for high-quality professional learning that is integrated and embedded into day-to-day teaching and learning, and that aligns with the school and district visions and missions. Facilitates teacher collaboration through structured learning opportunities and coaching conversations. Uses local, state, national standards and research to design and deliver professional learning.
  
  Actively learns and engages in professional reading and research to keep current and regularly shares new ideas with teachers and administrators.

Evaluation:
Performance will be evaluated in accordance with the Teacher Evaluation Plan.

Qualifications:

Illinois Professional Educator License. ESL Endorsement preferred. Bilingual Spanish speaking skills required. Endorsements in any of the following:
Reading specialist, MS Mathematics, MS Language Arts, elementary education, LBS1, or teacher leader required. Four years of classroom teaching experience. The employee must have foundational knowledge of district curricular standards and targets;
State of Illinois learning standards; best practices in teaching; differentiated instruction; successful classroom management strategies; and other related curriculum objectives.

Education Requirements:

The employee shall possess the equivalent of a Master's Degree; completion of a teacher preparation program through an accredited university or college.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee frequently is required to use hands to handle or feel instructional materials and classroom tools. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Work Environment:
The employee shall possess personal computing skills with the following types of software including web browsers, word processing, spreadsheet, and databases and student database systems. The employee shall use board approved resources, classroom textbooks, teacher manuals, technology, and assistive technology. While performing the duties of this job, the employee works in a classroom setting with children, occasionally works in outdoor weather conditions, and is subject to noises associated with an educational…