Education Coach
About The Position
The Education Coach provides intensive, personalized coaching to educational staff across CORS's nine counties. Coaching is based on individualized goals and identified needs and is intended to expand and refine staff understanding and implementation of developmentally appropriate teaching practices. The position must meet the qualifications and provide the services set forth in 45 CFR 1302.91 and 1302.92. This full-year, hourly, administrative, full-time, non-exempt position is based at the Piqua Central Office in Piqua, Ohio, and is classified as Grade VIII. The Education Coach works under the Director of Programing and partners with program leadership and educational staff to support teaching practices consistent with agency policies, program goals, school readiness goals, and selected curricula. The role requires extensive travel throughout the nine-county area.
Requirements
- Five or more years of related experience.
- Successful teaching experience with young children in a classroom or home-based setting.
- Experience mentoring and training individual adults and groups of adults.
- Knowledge and experience with current developmentally appropriate practices, intentional teacher-child interactions, and adult learning styles.
- Experience using assessment data to drive coaching strategies aligned with program performance goals.
- Bachelor's degree in early childhood education, or a bachelor's degree in a related field plus six ECE courses.
- Valid driver's license and a driving history acceptable to the agency's insurer.
- Ability to travel extensively to locations throughout the nine-county area.
- Skills in organization, problem-solving, record keeping, and time management.
- Proficient computer and technology skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally.
Responsibilities
- Carry forth the agency's Vision, Mission, and Core Values.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the agency-selected coaching strategy and best-practice coaching principles.
- Maintain positive collaboration with teachers, ECSC, Program Coordinators, and management staff.
- Partner with the Director of Programming and Program Education Coordinators to align coaching goals and teaching practices with agency policies, procedures, program goals, school readiness goals, and selected curricula.
- Help assess education staff strengths and support needs to identify who would benefit most from coaching.
- Develop and maintain respectful, professional, collaborative coaching partnerships with participating educational staff.
- Help develop clearly articulated goals based on individual staff members' assessed needs, using a strengths-based approach.
- Support the development and implementation of action plans based on individual staff goals.
- Use a variety of delivery systems, including technology, to support educational staff development within the coaching framework.
- Maintain weekly contact with each education staff member on the coaching caseload, alternating between in-person and distance connections.
- Schedule, plan, and facilitate on-site focused observations and reflective feedback meetings.
- Review and update goals and action plans as appropriate throughout coaching partnerships.
- Use support strategies such as focused observations, modeling, prompts, problem-solving conversations, reflection, and feedback to facilitate improvement and refinement of teaching practices.
- Complete and maintain ongoing documentation for each coaching partnership, including skill and needs assessments, goals, action plans, observations, and reflective feedback.
- Maintain knowledge of current research, philosophy, and techniques in early childhood, and provide current resources to coaching participants.
- Become knowledgeable about and support the entire CDA process to help participants complete it successfully.
- Participate in requested or scheduled meetings and work sessions.
- Complete and submit required paperwork on time and monthly reports as designated by the supervisor.
- Communicate necessary information to appropriate staff.
- Attend all agency-required training.
- Maintain confidentiality in all areas relating to families and staff.
- Adhere to all agency and program policies.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
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Job Type
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