Math Coach (Title I) - Bates Middle

Exempt position reporting to the Principal.

About the Role

To assist teachers in utilizing best practices for effective mathematics instruction.

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze standardized test scores and any other test data.
• Collaborate with curriculum coordinators and administrators on all test data and goals.
• Work with curriculum coordinator and principal to create a Math instructional plan for the school.
• Communicate a variety of instructional techniques to teachers and conduct model demonstration lessons for the staff.
• Visit and observe in classrooms and provide feedback to teachers through focused conferences.
• Attend meetings, conferences, workshops, training sessions, and staff development sessions related to Math instruction.
• Work consistently in a cooperative and respectful manner with others.
• Perform all other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

• Valid teacher's certificate in elementary education and/or Math.
• Master's Degree.
• Five (5) years of teaching experience.
• Extensive knowledge of SC Standards and best practices for math.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work well with teachers, students, and administrators.

Qualifications

Physical Requirements

• Requires sedentary work that involves walking or standing some of the time and involves exerting up to 10 pounds of force on a recurring basis or routine keyboard operations.
• Requires mobility.

Data Conception

• Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable functional, structural, or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people, or things.

Interpersonal Communications

• Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information, including giving assignments and/or directions to subordinates and receiving assignments and/or direction from a supervisor.

Language Ability

• Requires ability to read a variety of laws, policies, procedures, technical and professional studies, reference books, and publications.
• Requires the ability to prepare performance appraisals, policies, strategic plans, complex reports, schedules, correspondence, etc., with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of speech.

Intelligence

• Requires the ability to apply principles of logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Requires the ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical, schedule, or diagrammatic form and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Requires the ability to apply influence systems in managing a diverse staff, to learn and understand complex principles and techniques, to make independent judgments in the absence of supervision, and to acquire knowledge of topics related to the primary occupation.
• Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information.

Verbal Aptitude

• Requires the ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, follow and give verbal and written instructions, counsel and teach employees, and discipline and counsel students.
• Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with persons of varying educational backgrounds and in a variety of technical and/or professional languages, including education administration, curriculum development, budgeting, personnel, building maintenance, grant administration, and public relations.

Numerical Aptitude

• Requires the ability to add and subtract totals, multiply and divide, utilize mathematical formulas, determine percentages and decimals, and determine time.
• Must be able to use practical applications of algebra and statistics.

Form/Spatial Aptitude

• Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape, and visually read various information.

Motor Coordination

• Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes using office machinery and to operate motor vehicles.

Manual Dexterity

• Requires the ability to handle a variety of items, keyboards, office equipment, control knobs, buttons, switches, catches, etc.
• Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination

• Requires the ability to differentiate colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament

• Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions.
• Must be adaptable to performing under stress when confronted with emergency situations, volatile situations, or tight deadlines.
• Worker may be subject to danger or risk to a slight degree and to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.

Physical Communications

• Requires the ability to talk and hear (expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words and perceiving the nature of sounds by ear).

Schedule

195 days per year.