History and Social Science Coordinator
About The Position
The Virginia Department of Education is recruiting a History and Social Science Coordinator to provide highly complex professional, analytical, and technical expertise in history and social science. The role supports an evidence-based program of study for the Commonwealth of Virginia. The coordinator plans, organizes, identifies, and implements programs, workshops, and meetings for school administrators, supervisors, curriculum coordinators, and teachers. Topics include middle history instruction, technology, current trends and pedagogy that may affect student achievement, and international education. The coordinator also develops regional teacher-trainer support networks and holds regional sessions to help educators implement new standards, including modeling how to teach challenging concepts. The position provides timely specialized, professional, technical, and analytical responses to questions about history and social science and the History and Social Science Standards of Learning. It analyzes problems and prepares written documents in response to assignments from agency leadership, communicates expectations aligned with agency and program goals, attends to office activities and other assigned tasks, and represents the agency on behalf of the Superintendent. Other duties may be assigned by the Director of the Office of Humanities or the Assistant Superintendent for Instruction.
Requirements
- Demonstrated knowledge of the Virginia Standards of Learning program, local school divisions, state and local government policies and procedures, and state agency functions.
- Demonstrated knowledge of history and social science content and comprehensive knowledge of history and social science education, current best practices and advancements, and past and current emphases in the discipline.
- Demonstrated knowledge of best practices and skill in providing effective professional development for history and social science educators.
- Demonstrated knowledge of resources, resource allocation, budgets, and project management.
- Demonstrated knowledge and skill in applying best practices for instructional technology in educational environments and preparing for its future development and use.
Nice To Haves
- Undergraduate degree in a history or social science discipline and an advanced degree in education, evaluation, educational supervision or administration, or history and social science.
- Classroom teaching experience in history and social science and considerable experience working with elementary, middle, and high school students in these subjects.
- Extensive experience developing educational programs or services for local school divisions, program administration, and long-range planning.
- Extensive experience managing complex assignments and initiatives related to history and social science education, curriculum development, student assessment, project development, and program evaluation.
- Extensive experience organizing and providing professional development for teachers.
- Eligibility for a Postgraduate Professional License.
Responsibilities
- Plan, organize, identify, and implement programs, workshops, and meetings for school administrators, supervisors, curriculum coordinators, and history teachers on middle history instruction, technology, current trends and pedagogy, student achievement, and international education.
- Develop and launch regional support networks of teacher trainers to support implementation of new standards.
- Hold regional training sessions and model components of the standards, including effective approaches to challenging concepts.
- Provide timely specialized, professional, technical, and analytical responses to inquiries about history and social science and the History and Social Science Standards of Learning.
- Analyze problem situations and prepare written documents in response to assignments from the Director, Assistant Superintendent of Instruction, or Deputy Superintendent of Instructional and Educator Excellence.
- Communicate clear expectations related to the goals and objectives of the agency, Division, Department, and program.
- Attend to routine office activities and other tasks approved by the Director.
- Represent the agency on behalf of the Superintendent and perform other duties assigned by the Director of the Office of Humanities or Assistant Superintendent for Instruction.
Benefits
- Teleworking options may be available to Commonwealth of Virginia employees, subject to a final agreement reviewed and approved upon hire.
- Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with disabilities during the application and interview process.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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