What are the responsibilities and job description for the Instructional Coach / Interventionist - Literacy position at Alexandria City Public Schools?
Job Description :
The Literacy Instructional Coach and Interventionist provides leadership, professional learning, and coaching support to teachers on the development of the ACPS Literacy curriculum practices, that increase opportunities for all students to succeed in a general education settings. This role includes providing direct academic intervention in the area of Language Arts. This job reports to the School Principal.
Qualifications :
Education : Bachelor's Degree; Master's Degree in Education preferred.
Certificates & Licenses : Valid Virginia Department of Education license required, or eligibility to obtain one.
Endorsements : Reading Specialist endorsement is preferred, but not required.
Experience :
Minimum of 3 years of successful teaching experience.
Knowledge of effective instructional practices in education for all learners.
Knowledge of, and commitment to, implementing the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) or similar systems of student support.
Knowledge and experience administering diagnostic and progress monitoring assessments to target specific skills and concepts.
Demonstrate leadership, organizational skills, communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with others.
Experience with research-proven interventions focused specifically on individual student needs.
Experience with progress monitoring, data analysis, and documentation of student progress in order to inform instruction.
Ability to reflect on instruction and student progress in order to plan for instructional adjustments.
Maintain collegial working relationships and strong interpersonal skills with all stakeholders.
Essential Functions :
Organizes and facilitates, in a collaborative manner, program specific professional learning and implementation to support all of ACPS students.
Coordinates services and communicates program goals with appropriate personnel.
Facilitates the development and implementation of ACPS literacy frameworks and subcomponents such as the Elementary Reading Guidelines.
Strengthens teachers' instructional knowledge and their repertoire of pedagogical strategies for teaching rigorous content to all students.
Facilitates the consistent use of effective literacy strategies by supporting teachers through co-planning, co-teaching, modeling, demonstration sessions, reflecting, and focused classroom observations.
Supports teachers in creating classroom environments in which literacy is consistently and effectively integrated and where all learners are actively engaged and supported in challenging and rigorous studies as they make meaning of academic content through daily reading, writing, oral communication experiences, and hands-on activities.
Collaborates with teachers (general education, special education, and English Language Learning teachers) and administrators to develop and provide differentiated support in which teachers set student achievement related to growth in reading and professional development goals that are pedagogically-based and data-driven.
Facilitates the analysis and interpretation of formative and summative literacy data and continuous improvement process school-wide.
Assists administrative and instructional staff in analyzing and interpreting data and designing, implementing, and evaluating interventions to improve student achievement.
Collaborates with teachers, both individually and in small groups, to analyze student work, reflect on instructional delivery, evaluate lessons and differentiate instruction accordingly.
Provide direct reading instruction to students in small groups or individually.
Administer and support student progress monitoring and assessments
Oversee supplemental instruction and intervention
Works directly with students to improve foundational reading skills such as phoneme segmentation, decoding, encoding, and comprehension
Documents work and keep progress logs with teacher input.
Performs other related duties, as assigned, to ensure the efficient and effective functioning of the work unit.
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