What are the responsibilities and job description for the READING INTERVENTION/LITERACY COACH position at Culbreth Middle School?
TITLE: Reading Intervention/Literacy Coach
QUALIFICATIONS:
BENEFITS: Full Benefits
JOB GOAL: To ensure leadership, support and consultation in the development, implementation and reflection of rigorous, standards based literacy lessons.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
EVALUATION: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with the Board of Education policy on the evaluation of teachers.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Teaching licenses in middle school language arts
- Evidence of prior successful classroom teaching experience
- Demonstrated expert knowledge of Language Arts Curriculum
- Evidence of expert level collaboration skills
- Language Arts Consultant endorsement, Remedial Reading and Language Arts endorsement, or Intermediate Supervision are desirable, but not required
BENEFITS: Full Benefits
JOB GOAL: To ensure leadership, support and consultation in the development, implementation and reflection of rigorous, standards based literacy lessons.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Serve as coach/resource to teachers regarding core issues of lesson design and reflection.
- Assist teachers in understanding and using the core issues through small learning groups and individualized coach/teacher conferring.
- Support teachers on an ongoing basis to lead rich class discussions, teach students how to analyze and interpret text, work effectively with ELL students and struggling readers, build students’ vocabulary knowledge, and improve students’ ability to write text.
- Use the Principles of Learning as the framework for rigorous literacy instruction.
- Ground all literacy instruction in relevant research, district standards, and assessment data.
- Use the Criteria for Coaching Practice as the framework for coaching interactions.
- Share responsibility for student learning with each teacher.
- Build a collaborative partnership with the principal.
- Facilitate teacher learning groups, confer individually with teachers.
- Contribute to school and district professional development.
- Participate in coaching labs to refine own practice.
- Performs other appropriate duties as assigned.
EVALUATION: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with the Board of Education policy on the evaluation of teachers.