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DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: (These duties are a representative sample; position assignments may vary.)
Persons working as Title I Instructional Specialists will be supported by and report to both their site’s principal and district level administrators. Instructional Specialists will collaborate with other specialists across the district to further their professional learning and refine their instructional and coaching skills.
Instructional Specialists have complex, multi-faceted roles that will largely be determined by the unique needs and school improvement goals of the site to which they are assigned. These multi-faceted roles may include (but are not limited to) the following:
Program Implementation and Compliance – Working closely with district Title I staff to ensure program compliance, completion of required reports, needs assessments, budgets, parenting program compliance and organization of special events, as well as attending necessary trainings and meetings
Learner Facilitator – Coordinating, designing, facilitating and/or evaluating collaborative, job-embedded, standards-based professional development aligned with school improvement goals
Resource Provider – Locating information, resources and equipment to support instruction
Data Coach – Assisting teachers in looking at multiple forms of student achievement data, perception data, demographic data, and school process data to drive instructional decisions at the school level and the classroom level
Curriculum Supporter - Developing and supporting teachers’ content knowledge and working with district level curriculum specialists in the implementation of adopted curriculum
Instructional Supporter - Supporting teachers in selecting effective, research-based instructional strategies to meet the varied learning needs of their students __ aligned with school improvement goals; Working directly with students in instructional settings, including small groups and with individuals
Classroom Supporter – Modeling or conducting demonstration classrooms, co-teaching, or observing and giving non-evaluative feedback on instruction or management
Mentor – Supporting teachers new to the profession and supporting the teachers with experience that may be new to a campus or grade level or content area
School Leader – Collaborating with assigned school’s formal leadership to plan, implement and assess school change initiatives
Catalyst for change – Support and influence positive change on their assigned campus
An instructional coach supports teachers in the following ways:
- Providing strategies for improving classroom management
- Discussing strategies for increasing learner engagement
- Collaborating before and/or after lessons
- Co-creating assessments
- Co-planning a lesson or instructional unit
- Co-teaching a lesson
- Facilitating protocols for looking at student work/data
- Strategies for differentiating instruction
- Facilitating study groups with teams of teachers
- Demonstrating lessons
- Lessons studies (plan, teach, reflect cycle)
- Arranging for teachers to observe one another
- Supporting the site’s Title I Continuous Improvement Plan
- Other duties as assigned
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