TOSA - Instructional Math Coach - AIA - 60369

TOSA - Instructional Math Coach - Albany International Academy and Eagle Point Elementary

APSTA Employment Opportunity

Monday - Friday

General Statement:

The Instructional Math Coach serves as a resource to provide job-embedded professional support to stakeholders to enhance and expand a repertoire of strategies that can be used to improve student achievement in Mathematics. The Math Coach has demonstrated a level of commitment and enthusiasm to personal professional practice and is looking to advance these skills for themselves and their colleagues. The Math Coach is a member of the K5 STEM Department assigned to work at building(s) within the district. The Math Coach is not an administrator or supervisor.

Responsibilities:

• Provide professional support through the six defined ACSD methods; individual coaching cycles, small group coaching cycles, modified studio, consultation, resource support, and PD/PLC sessions

  • Engage in ongoing professional development to study, research, and reflect upon best practices to share with various stakeholders
  • Access, analyze and provide support around the range of available District assessments, including New York State assessments
  • In collaboration with the K-5 Instructional STEM Supervisor, the math coach will actively work to support district-wide curriculum implementation. This work includes but is not limited to curriculum writing, report card revisions, resource review and selections, distribution of math manipulative, as well as any other ACSD curriculum protocols and initiatives
  • Manage an assigned caseload as demonstrated through required professional, electronic record keeping such as individual coaching cycle logs and the professional support log
  • Attend bi-weekly Math meetings as organized by the K-5 Instructional STEM Supervisor
  • Actively participate, implement and model any District-Wide initiatives around student achievement including working directly with the building Math Interventionist(s) to support Math RtI and the use of both BRIDGES and math center games
  • Offer ongoing assessments / evidence of their own professional progress and complete a formal observation of the work
  
  

Essential Skills and Abilities:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each of the outlined major responsibilities and duties satisfactorily

• Individuals must be effective communicators and possess a strong ability to work collaboratively with peers in order to positively impact teaching practice

• Bilingual in Spanish/English preferred

• The individual must have a working knowledge of the various district software to track work product, communicate with stakeholders, and produce materials for PD/PLC presentations. This includes but is not limited to Outlook calendar and Google suite, e’Doctrina, IXL, and other supportive math platforms