Martin County Schools is currently accepting applications for a Middle/High School Instructional Coach. (Start Date: August 15, 2024.) See the job description below for more information.

REPORTS TO: Principal (Takes direction from applicable Curriculum Director.)

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: 10 Months

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university
• Minimum of five years of successful teaching experience
• Current North Carolina Professional Educator's License
• Experience in research-based instructional practices
• Desire to continue career improvement
• Previous coaching or teacher leadership experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Advanced degree from a regionally accredited college or university
• Eight or more years of successful teaching experience
• Deep knowledge of specific content area (Reading/ELA or Math/Science)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Effective communicaton, collaboration, and interpersonal skills for building an environment with a common instructional focus, promoting initiatives and conveying expectations.
• Ability to design and deliver quality professional development for administrators and teachers.
• Outstanding presentation and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate in a professional manner both orally and in writing.
• Demonstrated strength in organization, communication skills, and efficiency in meeting deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to function as a positive collaborative member of a team.
• Demonstrated interest and engagement in professional learning and reflection.
• Deep knowledge of and experience with instructional strategies, conditions of learning, and assessment-driven instruction (teaching/learning process).

PURPOSE: The Instructional Coach, having both content and instructional expertise, will work as a colleague with classroom teachers to support best teaching practices and student learning. The Instructional Coach will focus on individual and group professional learning that will expand and refine the understanding of effective research-based instructional practices. In order to meet this purpose, the Instructional Coach will provide support based on the goals and identified needs of teachers and/or schools as a whole.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. This list is meant to be representative, not exhaustive. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee is required to follow all Board of Education policies and procedures and to comply with instructions and/or directives from his/her supervisor(s).

• Supports the philosophy and vision of Martin County Schools.
• Facilitates the intellectual and professional development of teachers with a focus on improving student achievement.
• Creates positive relationships with teachers and administrators.
• Communicates and demonstrates research-based instructional practices that result in increased student performance.
• Reacts to change productively and handles other tasks as assigned.
• Provides individualized classroom-based coaching with participants to support them in implementing good instructional practices.
• Demonstrates a willingness to assume leadership positions.
• Provides organized individual and/or group learning opportunities for teachers as needed.
• Provides support in analyzing student assessment data.
• Assists teachers with instructional decisions based on assessment data when requested.
• Assists teachers with specific classroom activities when requested.
• Provides support for classroom motivation and management strategies.
• Assists teachers in creating materials that are in alignment with the curriculum.
• Provides teachers with resources related to instruction and curriculum.
• Provides assistance in researching instructional and/or curriculum issues.
• Models effective and differentiated instruction when requested.
• Provides encouragement and emotional support to teachers.
• Encourages ongoing provessional growth for all teachers.
• Manages time and schedule flexibility to maximize teacher schedules and learning.
• Works positively toward meeting identified district and building improvement goals.
• Develops and maintains a confidential and collegial relationship with teachers.
• Possesses an understanding of when to contact administrators regarding issues of safety or ethics.
• Participates fully in professional development for coaches, including peer observations, professional research and reading, and inquiry sessions.
• Assists teachers in aligning their instruction with appropriate standards, curriculum, and assessments, and maintains county-wide curriculum and/or pacing guides.
• Works collaboratively and collegially with other Instructional Coaches, Curriculum Specialists, and District Specialists.
• Performs other duties as assigned by Principal or Curriculum Director.

PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS: The major physical and cognitive requirements listed below are applicable to the Instructional Coach job classification within Martin County Schools. Work in this classification is considered light physical work and requires the exertion of up to 20 pounds of force occasionally to lift objects and a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.

• Regularly requires the ability to sit and talk or hear.
• Frequently requires the ability to walk and use fingers to operate tools or controls.
• Occasionally requires the ability to stand and reach with hands and arms.
• Specific visual abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people, or things.
• Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information, including receiving instructions, assignments, and/or directions.
• Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, articles, proposals, manuals, legislation, graphs, charts, etc.
• Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, charts, graphs, statistical analysis, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style.
• Requires the ability to speak to people with poise, voice control, and confidence.
• Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, and to follow oral and written instructions.
• Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently through a variety of technical and professional languages, including psychometric, statistical, and educational research terminology.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works indoors. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal. The work is performed in the Central Office and schools.