Student Achievement Specialist Job Ponca City area,Oklahoma USA,Education / Teaching

Position: Student Achievement Specialist- East Middle School

Student Achievement Specialist
-East Middle School for the School Year

Reports to:

Building Principal

Qualifications:

Valid Oklahoma Teaching Certificate

Preferred:
Administrative Cert. or Seeking Administrative Cert.

Job Goal:
Provide coaching to teachers;
Assist with making PLCs more efficient and effective;
Coordinate state testing;
Communicate with parents;
Manage data;
Tutor kids during Advisory RTI

Shift Type:
Full-time

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Work directly with site principals to fully understand and mold the school's vision for school improvement.

Work directly with site principals to identify teaching areas of concern and brainstorm how to target these areas.

Become knowledgeable in Robert Marzano's research on teaching and learning and the components, principles, and framework of Dr. Jim Knight's Partnership Learning Instructional Coaching Process.

Partner with teachers in planning and implementation of instructional methods and strategies using Marzano to ensure student learning of Oklahoma Academic Standards.

Keep abreast of research in the areas of student learning and instruction.

Encourage and support teachers' reflection of their classroom practices.

Be skillful in providing effective feedback to meet the needs of individual teachers.

Model lessons or parts of lessons based on research-based best practices for probationary and career teachers.

Observe teachers to provide suggestions for task analysis of lesson design to break down teaching practices into manageable components.

Assist teachers in developing and implementing effective, research-based classroom management techniques.

Attend all required district curriculum and instruction meetings.

Attend all site, district, and state training related to coaching, instruction, curriculum, and/or assessment

Meet district and site staff development requirements.

Assist in the selection and adoption of new instructional materials, methods, and programs.

Provide resources for site Professional Learning Communities.

Assist Professional Learning Communities in achieving goals, curriculum mapping, creating pacing guides, data collection and data disaggregation to inform decision making.

Coordinate state testing, attending all required meetings.

Managing IXL and state testing data and working directly with the principals to make data-informed decisions.

Make phone calls home to parents whose students are struggling with attendance, documenting the phone calls, and creating actions steps to help students have better attendance.

Use available data to determine RTI pull outs, using advisory time to tutor these students.

Performs all other tasks as supervisor may assign.