What are the responsibilities and job description for the MATHEMATICS COACH position at CATOMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
- Supporting the improvement of instruction with an emphasis on Tier 1 instruction to ensure students do not fall behind.
- Collaborating with the school principal and faculty to establish and implement a strategic plan for coaching and mathematics instruction to improve student achievement in mathematics.
- Facilitating schoolwide mathematics professional learning, including job-embedded assistance using coaching strategies, including joint preplanning, modeling lessons, co-teaching lessons, targeted observation to collect data, and debriefing. Modeling evidence-based mathematics instructional and intervention strategies for teachers.
- Continuously mentoring and coaching teachers.
- Assisting teachers in using data to differentiate mathematics instruction and to identify students exhibiting the characteristics of dyscalculia and other exceptionalities.
- Monitoring the progress of K-5 students in mathematics through benchmark formative assessments at least three times per year and making recommendations for modifying instruction based on the individual needs of students and trends in student data.
- Focusing solely as a mathematics coach for schools with elementary grade students.
- Collaborating with teachers and grade-level teams of teachers to foster the use of appropriate instructional materials, including concrete materials necessary to ensure that students understand mathematical concepts.
- Collaborating with grade-level teams to develop rigorous tasks, lessons, and assessments aligned with grade-level mathematics content standards; to facilitate the analysis of student work samples and assessment data; and to work in partnership with teachers to provide real-time feedback and make next-step instructional decisions based on the student evidence.
- Assisting teachers in using formative assessments and analyzing student work to identify students with misconceptions, students exhibiting characteristics of dyscalculia, and students needing acceleration.