Prek Regional Instructional Specialist

About the role

Serves as a member of the Early Childhood Team and participates in regular Walk Throughs of Pre-Kindergarten classes in schools, off-sites, and community-based child care partner sites. Debriefs with teachers, school leadership teams, partner directors, and Early Childhood staff to analyze and support the instructional practices in schools and/or early childhood sites.

Responsibilities

• Plans and administers (in collaboration with the central and academic offices) the implementation of instructional strategies to support academic achievement.
• Develops, designs and delivers professional development for central and academic offices, principals, leadership teams, teachers, classroom assistants, and partner staff based on the needs of schools, early childhood sites and teachers.
• Visits schools, partner sites, and classrooms and provides support to improve instructional and assessment strategies, outside of the Walk Throughs.
• Encourages a continuous exchange of ideas and maintains a relationship with the assigned academic division.
• Develops strategies that connect curriculum, instruction, assessment and professional development for effective data driven interventions to improve teaching and learning.
• Supports teachers in delivering on-the-spot, in-classroom data-driven instruction.
• Supports teachers in creating interventions (strategy groups, conferencing, small groups, etc) based on formal and informal assessment results.
• Supports teachers in the use of on-going periodic assessment results on their students and how to best use the results to deliver differentiated instruction.
• Collaborates in crating content for professional development during school year and in the summer.
• Facilitates summer sessions for new teachers and assistants.

Requirements

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• Five years of full-time, paid, professional appointed classroom or site based teaching experience (which has included supporting teachers in improving instructional practices).
• Possession of a valid Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Early Childhood Instructional II teaching certificate.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of: all aspects of the content and implementation of the core curriculum and PA Early Learning Standards.
• Best instructional practices and Federal and State guidelines.
• Periodic assessments and on-going informal assessments and strategies to support students based on the results.
• Site visit protocol for walks for learning.
• Current research regarding communities of learners, instructional practices linked to student achievement, differentiated instruction, mentoring, coaching and emergent technologies.
• Increasing achievements for all students.
• Collecting, analyzing and using data.
• The use of technology to access students’ assessment results.

Skills and Abilities

• Providing interventions (strategy groups, conferencing, small groups, etc) based on formal and informal assessment results.
• Designing and facilitating school and/or early childhood site led workshops for staff development incorporating assessments and interventions into current curriculum.
• Building relationships and helping teachers feel comfortable with and understand instruction.
• Communicating effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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