Position: K-12 Learning Coach
Division: Learning
Reports to: Director of Learning
Contract: full-time, school year 2023-24
Position overview:
To optimize student learning at ASW by working directly with K-12 teachers to implement processes and practices that enhance and/or transform teaching.
Specific responsibilities include (but not limited to):
- The instructional coach will work K-12 across the school and in collaboration with other coaches and coordinators to:
- Build a collaborative, coaching culture, alongside of the coaching team, to support faculty in the endeavor of realizing ASW’s Mission, Vision and Core Values
- Provide onboard training to new ASW staff on key frameworks, structures and resources
- Use coaching strategies when working with teachers
- Create structures and processes to engage teachers in on-going professional development to support cohesion of best practices, e.g. Peer Learning Labs
- Facilitate planning with teachers and teams using the ASW mission and values, the ASW adopted academic standards, and the IB essential elements
- Lead teams in design discussions regarding inquiry-based and concept-based teaching and learning practices
- Support a culture of data-Informed practice through the facilitation of conversations related to the analysis of student assessment data for the purpose of adjusting learning and providing student feedback
- Curate and make available teaching and learning resources.
- Support IB Coordinators in the design of the written, taught, and assessed curriculum:
- systems and structures that create student agency
- design of IB units using developmentally appropriate, ASW-adopted academic standards.
- Promote a collaborative culture that focuses on improvement of student learning outcomes.
- Implement co-designed practices and projects to address the unique learning of students (inclusion, diversity, differentiation, adaptations, multiple literacies etc.), research and tools, assessment as, of and for learning.
- Keep abreast research, new educational developments, and technology advancements as related to instructional practice.
Requirements:
Education:
- Teaching certification from an accredited institution, a minimum two years of experience and a proven record of instructional coaching
- Preferred Master’s in instructional pedagogy
- Preferred teaching experience in one or more of the IB PYP, MYP and DP Programmes
Experience:
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with coaching models and coaching cycles
- Developed trust and relationship within teams to facilitate school change
- Experience promoting a collaborative culture
- Demonstrated success in leading teacher professional development in small and large group settings and demonstrated skills for building team and group dynamics
- Experience with the design of aligned plans of teaching and learning, including assessments and learning engagements
- Experience connecting data to instructional decision-making
- Preferred knowledge and experience in one or more of the IB frameworks or a commitment to grow professionally in the IB philosophy
Prior (successful) experience with:
- Coaching models and coaching cycles
- Developing trust and relationships within teams to facilitate school change
- Promoting a collaborative culture
- Leading teacher professional development in small and large group settings
- Designing, implementing and monitoring curriculum: written, assessed and taught
- Connecting data to instructional decision-making
- Supporting the design framework for service and action within units of study
- Working within one or more of IB frameworks (preferred)
- SY 2023/2024