Instructional Facilitator

Instructional Facilitator

Qualifications: Minimum bachelor's degree, valid teacher license with appropriate grade level core curriculum endorsement, minimum three years teaching experience relative to the specific responsibilities of the position, meets health and physical requirements.

Job Goal: To provide school-level mentoring, training, content area support, and professional development to teachers in order to strengthen the instructional program at the building level.

Essential Functions:

• Participates in data review and monitors instructional needs based on data analysis, to include implementation of the state and local curriculum.
• Acts as an instructional leader, capable of providing informed analysis and advice about curriculum and instruction based on research and the analysis of assessment data.
• Provides mentoring support, lesson modeling, feedback, and professional development for teachers.
• Coordinates the school-level teacher mentoring program.
• Applies the instructional coaching cycle to provide support to classroom teachers.
• Provides support to classroom teachers to make data actionable in the classroom.
• Facilitates professional learning community (PLC) processes in the assigned school and conducts fidelity monitoring of PLC process implementation.
• Models teacher leadership and supports the principal in the development of teacher leadership.
• Assist in curriculum development and the implementation of state standards.
• Organizes and implements staff development opportunities by proposing, planning, and conducting inservice activities based on teacher and school need.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the principal (in coordination with the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction).

Physical Demands: This job may require lifting of objects that exceed 10 lbs. Other physical demands that may be required are as follows: kneeling, talking, hearing, seeing.

Temperament (Personal Traits): Possession of mature professional judgment, growth mindset, positive attitude, and focus on student learning. Possession of attributes and qualities of leadership with ability to organize and mentor teachers and professional learning community (PLC) teams. Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure. Adaptability to changing work schedule to prioritize tasks according to urgency. Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity. Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on data, sensory, or judgmental criteria. Ability to exercise professional judgment and maintain confidentiality of information in professional discussions with teachers and administrators. Ability to tactfully deliver constructive criticism and professional recommendations to teachers regarding presentation of content.

Capacity and Ability Requirements: Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or adequately perform a task or job duty. Intelligence: Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgments. Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them. Numerical: Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately. Data Perception: Ability to understand and interpret information presented in the form of graphs, charts, or tables. Communication: Ability to effectively communicate in oral and written forms.

Work Conditions: Most work will be performed in the classroom environment with students present.

Terms of Employment: 200-day teacher contract, teacher salary scale. Immediate Supervisor: Principal (in coordination with assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction).