What are the responsibilities and job description for the Math Coach position at Phenix City Schools?
MATH COACH JOB DESCRIPTION
POSITION TITLE: Math Coach
SUPERVISES: N/A
QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Valid certificate to teach in Alabama in early childhood education, elementary education, or special education.
2. Master’s degree from an accredited college or university or have completed professional development recommended by the Elementary Mathematics Task Force, or both.
3. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board might find appropriate and acceptable.
REPORTS TO: School Principal and Director of Curriculum
SALARY: To be determined commensurate with local salary matrix, credentials, and experience.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
Essential functions may include, but are not limited to:
- 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 preplaning, modeling lessons, co-teaching lessons, targeted observation to collect data, and debriefing.
- Modeling evidenced-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.
- Assisting teachers in administering early numeracy screeners or diagnostic assessments, or both, in grades K-2. The assistance of a mathematics coach may not exceed two hours per week.
- Assisting teachers with administering fractional reasoning screeners or diagnostic assessments, or both, for students in grades four or five, subject to legislative appropriation. The assistance of a mathematics coach may not exceed two hours per week.
- Advocating, planning, and coordinating opportunities, in conjunction with the principal, for school-based family and community engagement in mathematics.
- Actively and cooperatively participating in any Office of Mathematics Improvement regional coordinator and AMSTI regional mathematics specialist visits and professional learning to meet agreed upon personal outcomes and all school, district, and state established mathematics goals.
- Engaging in ongoing learning opportunities to grow in knowledge, skills, and expertise in mathematics.
- Facilitating the use of assessment data in all tiers of mathematics instruction to assist in making decisions that will move students to higher levels of performance in mathematics.
- Planning or facilitating, or both, professional learning opportunities that will assist teachers in targeting student deficits; facilitating professional conversations; foster student engagement; assess student learning; reflect on professional practice; and identify next learning steps to achieve state, district, and school goals in mathematics.
- Recording job duties and time spent with teachers on a state-specified electronic platform.
- Supporting teachers in the authentic integration of computer science and computational thinking concepts within the mathematics classroom.
- Perform additional duties as delegated by the School Board.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Minimum of five years of experience as an early childhood, elementary, or special education teacher.
- Demonstrate expertise in mathematics instruction and intervention and early numeracy interventions, including dyscalculia interventions.
