ISS (Gifted).

Responsibilities

• Provide coaching (both in-person and virtually) to ISS (Gifted) educators and educational leaders.
• Guide leadership and leadership team(s) in school-wide implementation planning, including professional development, job-embedded learning time, and scheduling.
• Foster professional practice improvement of teachers in an ISS (Gifted) learning environment.
• Implement ISS (Gifted) instruction within student-focused learning environments, covering physical space, academic, social, and emotional learning opportunities, and daily structure.
• Advise educators on leveraging interpreted data to improve teaching effectiveness.

Requirements

• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Requirement.
• Proof of U.S. Citizenship required.
• Direct deposit of pay is required.
• Two-year trial period may be required.
• Appointment subject to a suitability/fitness determination, as determined by a background investigation.
• This position requires a Tier 1 (T1) investigation with Childcare Checks due to interaction with children and youth under the age of eighteen (18).
• You may be required to sign a transportation agreement.
• You will be required to sign a mobility agreement, be available for worldwide placement, and be willing to rotate to any DoWEA location.

Qualifications

Only applicants who meet one of the following employment authority categories are eligible to apply:

• Current Competitive Service Department of War Education Activity (DoWEA) Civilian Employee
• Current Department of War (DoW) Civilian Employee
• Current Excepted Service Department of War Education Activity (DoWEA) Employee
• Current Excepted Service Department of War Employee
• Current Excepted Service Employee
• Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI)
• Non-Department of War (DoW) Transfer
• Postal Service/Peace Corps and Other Unique Authorities
• Priority Placement Program, DoW Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible
• Priority Placement Program, DoW MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement
• Priority Placement Program, DoW Retained Grade Preference Eligible

Minimum Education Requirement: The course work must have been completed at or accepted by a regionally accredited U.S. college or university. ISS positions must meet the following three criteria:

1. Minimum Education Requirement: A minimum of a Master's degree in the field of Education is required for all Instructional System Specialist (ISS) positions. Copies of transcripts must be uploaded, including at a minimum, Bachelor's and Master's transcripts.
2. Specialized Experience Requirement (5 years): Specialized experience is experience gained in teaching, educational research, development of educational materials and aids, educational testing, educational administration, or comparable activities in an elementary and/or secondary school, which has clearly demonstrated success in the application of principles, methods, and techniques of education and familiarity with current developments in PreK-12th grade education and training. This experience must have been in Advanced Academics Programs & Services or Gifted Education.
3. Professional Licensure Requirement: Applicants must be currently certified or certifiable under the current DoWEA standards in general education for grades Prekindergarten or Kindergarten AND any Elementary Grade 1-5.

Preferred consideration given to applicants that have completed coursework in the following content areas:

• Learning theory, psychology of learning, educational psychology: Study of learning theories as they relate to the systematic design, development, and validation of instructional material.
• Instructional design practices: Study of the principles and techniques used in designing training programs, developing design strategy and models, and applying design methods to the improvement of instructional effectiveness.
• Educational evaluation: Study of the techniques for evaluating the effectiveness of instructional/educational programs, including developing written and performance tests and survey instruments, and determining reliability and validity of evaluation instruments.
• Instructional product development: Study of the techniques appropriate for developing training materials, including identifying learner characteristics, specifying objectives, applying training strategy, validating training materials, and evaluating training.
• Computers in education and training: Study of the application of computers in education and training.

Foreign Degrees and Course Work from Non-accredited Institutions: Credits or degrees earned from a foreign college or university must be evaluated prior to acceptance. Three evaluation procedures are acceptable:

• The work must be evaluated and interpreted by a current member of National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES).
• The foreign institution that awarded the degree is on a list endorsed by a regionally accredited university or on a list endorsed by a state department of education for the purpose of teacher certification in that state (this procedure will require an English translation of the transcript and a copy of the document awarding the degree, together with an authenticated list produced by an American university or a state department of education).
• The work may be evaluated by the graduate division of a regionally accredited university and declared the equivalent of similar undergraduate or graduate work in a U.S. institution.

Graduates of non-accredited institutions may have their undergraduate work validated by admittance to graduate school and completion of a minimum of 5 semester hours of credit in a regionally accredited graduate college.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

• Education Consultation, Coaching and Collaboration
• Instructional Implementation
• Instructional Program Administration
• Needs/Occupational Analysis
• Staff and Faculty Development

Benefits

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time, or intermittent.

Pay

Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.