Per Diem Educational Consultant (9-12 Math)

Savvas Learning Company • Washington, DC

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About The Position

The Per Diem Educational Consultant (9-12 Math) is an onsite representative of Savvas Learning Company helping to initiate lasting change in districts and schools by delivering core content, intervention and supplemental professional development, Change of Practice, and Job-embedded services. This resource provides individual and group support for district personnel and school faculty to incorporate effective strategies into classroom practice. Additional responsibilities include delivering professional development and technical assistance to schools that have contracted with Savvas for professional development and job-embedded services. In addition, this position requires deep knowledge and extensive experience with academia, standards-based school reform and the ability to deliver high quality job-embedded professional development and site-based technical support to school personnel using innovative Savvas products, technology resources and/or research-based methodologies for school turn around.

Requirements

• B.A. or B.S. degree required; M.A. preferred.
• Experience offering workshops/coaching to teachers.
• Experience with classroom-based technology integration.
• Experience with differentiated instruction.
• Demonstrated success as a classroom teacher and at least five years of successful experience as a 9-12 professional in the Math content area teaching Algebra1, Geometry, or Algebra 2.
• Strong collaboration and team building skills.
• Knowledge of standards-based reform, curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
• Ability to plan strategically with and coach school leaders and classroom teachers.
• Ability to provide instructional support relating to effective teaching strategies for teachers across content areas using instructional technology.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent ability to present content to large and small groups (effective presentation skills).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Scaffolding instruction for English Language Learners.
• Certification in bilingual education preferred.
• Scaffolding instruction for students with disabilities.
• Strategies for the effective classroom use of instructional technology.
• Experience in Virtual Teaching and Learning.
• Programs and services to support community outreach.

Responsibilities

• Effectively implement classroom components and resources in the program.
• Apply the philosophy, pedagogy, and basic organization of the program.
• Implement each segment of the daily instructional block.
• Differentiate instruction based on student need.
• Effectively manage a Savvas curriculum classroom, technology integration and devices.
• Effectively utilize data and reporting tools to impact instruction and decision making.
• Model coaching conversations that support admin with providing effective teacher feedback.
• Coach teachers to apply the philosophy, pedagogy, and basic organization of the program.
• Observe classroom practices following the professional development to identify implementation progress of the Savvas program.
• Provide teachers with critical feedback to guide implementation progress of the key instructional features of the program.
• Use of two dashboards within the product (Performance and Assignment).
• Utilize Savvas program tools to determine the implementation needs.
• Observe the strategies and practices implemented in the instructional block and provide teachers with feedback on implementation.
• Classroom/Instructional coaching.
• Facilitation of training to support implementation.
• Provision of onsite technical support.
• Regular and ongoing communication with school and district leaders.

Benefits

• Travel up to 70%, including airline and automobile travel.
• Reliable method of transportation to perform job duties.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees