Qualifications:Must hold a Master’s Degree with a valid Missouri teaching and administrative certificate. Demonstrated 3 years of successful teaching experience and 3 years of administrative experience.

FLSA: Exempt

Salary Schedule: Teacher Salary Schedule

Direct Report: Director of Elementary

Terms of Employment: 550 hours, 1 year

Purpose: Academic Coach will provide many services including professional development and monitoring of instructional support in classrooms.

Essential Job Functions:

Academic Coach must be able to:

• Attend work in a regular, reliable and punctual manner.
• Write and speak in a logical and understandable style, using appropriate grammar and sentence structure, and demonstrate a command of standard English, enunciation, clarity of oral directions, and pace and precision in speaking.

• Read, comprehend, and interpret professional and other written material.
• Compute, think logically, and solve problems.
• Use and integrate appropriate technology in teaching and learning processes and in managing, evaluating, and improving instruction.
• Use teaching and learning strategies that include consideration of each student’s learning styles, needs, and background.
• Demonstrate the ability to maintain a positive, collaborative relationship with colleagues and administration.
• Demonstrate the ability to maintain a positive environment in the classroom while achieving order and discipline.
• Demonstrate 3 years of successful teaching experience.
• Demonstrate professionalism and commitment to excellence.
• Model effective classroom practices.

Academic Coach will:

• Provide in-school demonstration and coaching to teachers.
• Conduct teacher study group sessions.
• Support building leadership team.
• Provide professional development for instructional support.
• Plan the focus of coaching visits and teacher study groups by analyzing information of assigned classrooms and using information to inform practice.
• Conduct and/or participate in classroom walkthroughs in assigned schools to engage teachers, administrators, and others to identify examples of effective classroom practices.
• Provide other duties assigned.

Employee Behavior and Conduct:

District employees shall conduct themselves in a professional manner and shall exhibit and extend such professional conduct appropriate for the circumstances to those with whom they come into contact, both internally and externally during the performance of their duties. Examples of professional conduct include, but are not limited to, being communicative, informative, fair, honest, and respectful.

EOE