2026-2027: Preschool Instructional Coach (Part-Time- up to 50 days)
About The Position
The Instructional Coach provides instructional support to teachers in implementing best-practice strategies across academic areas. The coach works with administrators and teachers to identify curriculum, instruction, and assessment training needs; supports teachers through coaching, modeling, classroom visits, and demonstrations; and helps improve literacy and math instruction, student engagement, classroom management, differentiation, and technology integration. The role supports teacher teams and individuals in identifying intervention needs, completing coaching cycles, facilitating Professional Learning Communities, analyzing assessment and student performance data, and designing job-embedded professional learning. The coach also assists with screening and progress monitoring, assessment design, accommodations and modified work for students with IEPs, 504 plans, or PSPs, curriculum development, and professional development planning. The position maintains communication with teachers, principals, and district leadership and attends relevant professional learning opportunities. This is a part-time position for the 2026–2027 school year, for up to 50 days. Salary and work year are established by the board of education. A state and national criminal history background check and a child abuse/neglect check are required as a condition of employment.
Requirements
- Three years of successful teaching experience.
- Formal experience mentoring teachers in effective instructional and assessment strategies.
- A state and national criminal history background check and a child abuse/neglect check are required as a condition of employment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience providing accommodations to students is recommended.
Responsibilities
- Meet regularly with administrators and teachers to identify school-specific curriculum, instruction, and assessment training needs.
- Assist with formal coaching of effective teaching strategies, including for newly hired teachers and teachers with four years or less of experience.
- Help teachers organize classrooms for effective literacy and math instruction.
- Help teachers incorporate technology into daily instruction.
- Support strategies that engage students in their own learning.
- Support classroom management and differentiation strategies to improve instruction and meet students’ needs.
- Coach individual teachers and teams to determine literacy and math intervention needs, and complete coaching cycles with identified teachers.
- Assist with implementation of best-practice strategies across academic areas and model instruction connecting curriculum and assessment practices.
- Assist with facilitating Professional Learning Communities to implement, adjust, and refine curriculum, analyze assessment data, and improve instruction.
- Create job-embedded professional learning opportunities focused on a problem of practice or area of concentration.
- Maintain open communication with assigned teachers, principals, and district leadership.
- Assist with universal reading and math screening, benchmarking, and student progress monitoring as part of RTI.
- Help teachers analyze reading, writing, and math assessment results, student work, and performance data.
- Help create modified assignments and tests and design or implement accommodations in accordance with students’ IEPs, 504 plans, or PSPs.
- Assist with constructing and evaluating formative and summative classroom assessments.
- Consult on selecting instructional resources, supplies, technology, and professional books.
- Assist in planning professional development and in-service programs to improve instructional performance across content areas.
- Attend workshops, conferences, and meetings to maintain professional knowledge and provide staff development based on training.
- Recommend curriculum adjustments to meet the learning needs of exceptional children in literacy and math.
- Participate in curriculum development projects, including school and district focus teams.
- Conduct classroom visitations and demonstrations.
- Confer with teachers, principals, and district leadership about curriculum, instruction, and assessment problems.
- Perform other job responsibilities assigned to teachers as defined in the Franklin County Public Schools Manual.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Education Level
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