Employer: Western Heights Public Schools
Location: Oaklahoma City, OK
Employment Type: Full-time
Credentials: Oklahoma Teaching Certification
Administrative certification- will receive preference...
Reading Certification- will receive preference
Experience Required: *A minimum of five (5) years of successful teaching experience.
• Leadership experience.
Instructional Coaching experience will receive preference.
Education: *Bachelor’s degree
Master’s degree -will receive preference
Position Summary: The instructional coach will contribute to the improvement of student achievement by building teacher capacity through the development of research-based knowledge and practice. The instructional coach will be expected to provide professional development to large and small groups of teachers. In addition, the instructional coach will work with individual teachers to analyze data-based student needs and current teacher practice in order to develop coaching goals. Common coaching activities will include modeling, co-planning, co-teaching, observation, and conferencing with teachers. This is not a supervisory position and does not include the evaluation of colleagues.
Job Duties
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
• Develop positive and supportive relationships with classroom teachers, specialized professionals, and paraprofessionals.
• Work with the WHMS and District leadership team to determine the focus of the district's professional learning and then work with the team to design, prepare, and deliver large and small-group professional learning to appropriate audiences.
• Provide team level and individual coaching to ensure that instructional practices are aligned with the curriculum, with student assessment data, and with the district's commitment to engaged learning.
• Provide coaching in the form of modeling, co-planning, co-teaching, observing, and conferencing to support individual teachers as they strive to enhance their practice and their students' learning.
• Assist in the development of intervention procedures and strategies for students who need additional instructional support.
• Respond to teacher inquiries about research-based instructional practices and/or curricular issues.
• Assist teachers in analyzing and strengthening the various ways technology is being implemented to support both instruction and learning.
• Assist in identifying and ordering resources needed to support student learning and, via explanation and demonstration, support teachers in the use of those new resources.
• Develop a system to document all activities with the intention of building a schedule that maximizes time with teams and individual teachers. Review and revise the schedule on a quarterly basis.
• Enhance coaching skills through attendance at/participation in various learning experiences such as conferences, workshops, summer institutes.
Physical/Mental Requirements And Working Conditions
In a typical Work day, employee must be able to sit, stand and walk for 8 hours. Job requires occasional bending/stooping squatting/crouching, crawling/kneeling, reaching above the shoulder and pushing/pulling. Job requires occasional carrying/lifting up to 15 pounds and occasionally moving tables and boxes of written materials or paper.
Job requires employee to use both hands for repetitive actions involving simple/firm grasping and fine manipulation. Employee must possess manual dexterity and visual ability to read, write, type, operate a computer, and to supervise. Employee must possess hearing and speaking abilities to communicate in person and on the phone both individually and with groups of students, staff, parents and community members. Employee must have mobility enough to monitor areas of the building and grounds if necessary and attend meetings outside the building. Employee must have mental ability to communicate with and supervise teachers/administrators and manage the district and to think critically and make important decisions under stress.
Job could require working in the outdoors if supervising or monitoring: use of and proximity to office equipment and occasional contact with violent or disruptive students, patrons or staff. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by and employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
• It is the ability of the District to substitute other job experience for required teaching, coaching or administrative experience