ELA Instructional Coach (K-4)

ELA Instructional Coach (K-4) JobID: 1009

Position Type:

Elementary School Teaching/Elementary

Date Posted:

5/22/2024

Location:

District

Date Available:

2024-25 School Year

Closing Date:

Until Filled

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The North Plainfield School District, a culturally diverse school district in Somerset County serving 3,400 students Pre-K through grade 12, seeks a dynamic, enthusiastic and innovative professional for the position of ELA Instructional Coach.

The ELA Instructional Coach leads the development and improvement for K-4 teachers via training, informal, non-evaluative observations, model lessons, feedback conversations, data analysis, and more. The Literacy Coach serves as the literacy content expert and provides support on curriculum, high-quality interactions, and the best practices for reading, writing, and phonics.

Major Responsibilities and Duties:

• Support grade-specific content areas, while adhering to state requirements.

• Support staff with topics such as student engagement, higher-level thinking and questioning, and rigorous instruction.

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with teacher cohorts.

• Work with building and district administrators and applicable PLCs to assist in accomplishing goals, objectives, and create activities.

• Attend applicable professional conferences and workshops and turn-key information.

• Guide teachers in leading effective data-driven conversations with students and peers.

• Assist teachers and administrators with organizing, analyzing, and drawing actionable conclusions based on formative assessment data and classroom visits.

• Collaborate with teachers to implement the plan, teach, debrief model to refine best practices.

• Conduct classroom visits in a non-evaluative supporting structure, providing feedback on lessons and model lessons.

• Attend trainings, grade-level meetings, school meetings, and coaching professional development.

• Assures cohesion in between consultant visitations.

• Utilize current district data (iReady and common assessments) to drive instructional needs.

• Work with the leadership team in the creation of the school's professional development plan with specific, measurable, and attainable benchmarks for teacher and student performance.

• Identify, design, and implement additional professional development during in-service days.

• Performs other duties as may be assigned by the assigned supervisor.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 highly effective years of experience as a certified ELA teacher or Coach

• Proven results when working with struggling readers and writers

• Strong knowledge of how children learn to read and write

• Knowledge and experience working with the Readers and Writers Workshop model

• Bilingual, English/Spanish preferred; not required

• Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills

• Knowledge of grade-level standards

• Ability to disaggregate, interpret, and analyze assessment data

• Ability to develop and deliver training to adult learners

Term: 10-month position

EOE/AA