Instructional Specialists- Title I (Mathematics)

Job Goal:

To develop improved instructional techniques in core content areas (e.g., reading and mathematics) in St. Landry Parish Title I schools.

Qualifications (minimum education, licensure, skills, and/or experience):

• Valid Louisiana Teaching Certificate.
• Master’s degree from an accredited university.
• Louisiana certification to teach English, mathematics, or reading within grades 1-8.
• Five (5) years of successful certified teaching experience in the areas of English, mathematics, or reading within grades 1-8.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist Title I teachers and teachers with Title I students with testing, diagnosing, grouping, and evaluating Title 1 students.
• Assist teachers of Title I students with prescription writing, selection, construction, and proper use of supplementary materials.
• Collaboratively plan lessons with teachers, observe instruction, team teach, and provide instructional support and feedback to teachers of Title I students.
• Train Title I teacher aides and conduct in-service meetings with Title I teachers and with teachers and aides of Title I students.
• Assist librarians with materials and book classification of Title I students.
• Facilitate the writing of curriculum improvements, planning of summer workshops, and summer planning for the next school year.
• Assist all Title I schools with purchasing Title I materials.
• Participate in job-embedded professional learning communities and meet with Title I students and parents for educationally related purposes when required or requested.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Justification for Employment beyond nine months: The extended month’s employment is necessary to assist with evaluation of Title 1 instructional programs, plan for improving coordination and sequential skill teaching, and prepare for in-service of Title 1 aides, Title 1 teachers and teachers of Title 1 students.

Instructional support staff (i.e., instructional specialists, paraprofessionals, and coaches) shall be expected to perform the following duties, along with the completion of corresponding documents, forms, and reports.

Self-Evaluation

• Complete a self-evaluation and document the results on appropriate written forms.

Professional Growth Plan

• Develop a Professional Growth Plan in collaboration with the evaluation.

Supervision

• Supervise students as needed when students are on campus.
• Supervise students prior to school and/or drop-off, when assigned.
• Supervise students in the classroom, if needed
• Supervise students as needed between classes, during recess/intermission, during lunch, assemblies.
• Supervise students after school and/or pick-up, when assigned.

Instructional Components

• Fulfill duties traditionally expected of those in the counseling profession.
• Accept and discharge assignments.
• Practice and model punctuality.
• Collaborate with colleagues and departments.
• Adhere to federal, state, system, and school policies and regulations.
• Conduct conferences as needed. Maintain positive and timely interaction with parents relative to the performance or conduct of students assigned to the counselor.
• Follow recommendations made by school administrators and district staff.
• Take part in the continuing in-service program of the schools.

School Support Activities

• Provide for the care and proper usage of school property. Maintain current inventory of items assigned to position.
• Attend meetings generally associated with the instruction of students.
• Attend faculty, staff, and department meetings.
• Attend ILT meeting if applicable.
• Attend training sessions.
• Attend IEP/IAP meetings, upon request.
• Attend parent-teacher conferences, upon request
• Attend back-to-school and open-house events.
• Attend graduation.
• Attend student discipline meetings/hearings, upon request.
• Attend school board/committee meetings, upon request.
• If requested, be responsible for a reasonable amount of co-curricular and other duties beyond the regular school day as determined by the building principal.
• Attend/work concessions/gates at athletic events within school year.
• Attend all meetings and functions of those activities, clubs, or groups of which the employee is a sponsor/coach.

Physical Demands:

• Sedentary: Exerts up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently; involves sitting most of the time.

Terms of Employment:  10 month

Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel (Bulletin 130).