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METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
POSITION DESCRIPTION
Job Title:
Coach - Literacy
FLSA:
Exempt
Job Code & Family
81021; Coaches
Revision Date:
02.13.2014
Salary Plan & Pay Grade:
Certificated, BA
Revised By:
David Moore
EEO Code:
511: Consultants & supervisors of instruction
Comp Reviewed By:
Sheila Armstrong
Grant Funded?
Local
# of months; # of days:
11-mos; 221 days
JOB SUMMARY & PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS
REPORTS TO: Principal & Executive Director of Instruction
DEPARTMENT NAME: Leadership & Learning
JOB SUMMARY (2-3 sentences): Facilitates the implementation of reading/literacy in Pre-K-12 classrooms. Serves as reading instructional coach for teachers. Provides ongoing job-embedded professional development, models effective instructional strategies, and leads discussions in scientifically based reading research with teachers.
PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS: List, in the order of time spent, the essential tasks performed by the position. Employees may be assigned additional duties by management as required.
Job Responsibility 1:
Supports teachers and their work with students in balanced literacy (elementary), middle school literacy, and content area reading.
Job Responsibility 2:
Serves as literacy coach and mentor for balanced literacy (elementary), middle school literacy, and content area reading in planning and collaborating with teachers, facilitating classroom instruction, modelling effective instructional reading strategies for teachers, and providing supportive feedback to teachers.
Job Responsibility 3:
Assists with reading assessments and ensures data is entered into the appropriate data management system. Analyzes assessment results with teachers and administrators and focuses on student data to inform classroom instruction.
Job Responsibility 4:
Provides professional development for teachers in scientifically-based reading research.
Job Responsibility 5:
Coordinates reading/literacy implementation. Reviews trends in reading instruction and communicates current research-based best practices.
Job Responsibility 6:
Maintains and coordinates distribution of resources (e.g., bookroom, classroom libraries).
Job Responsibility 7:
Provides information and training opportunities for parents and community members.
Job Responsibility 8:
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES, REQUIREMENTS, AND IMPACTS
DATA RESPONSIBILITY: "Data Responsibility" refers to information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation. Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations.
Compares or inspects data, people, or things against a standard..
PEOPLE RESPONSIBILITY: "People Responsibility" refers to individuals who have contact with or are influenced by the position.
Follows instructions of supervisor. Maintains confidential relationships with teachers to enhance a trusting relationship.
ASSETS RESPONSIBILITY: "Assets Responsibility" refers to the responsibility for achieving economies or preventing loss within the organization.
Requires responsibility and opportunity for achieving moderate economies and/or preventing moderate losses through the management or handling of supplies of high value or moderate amounts of money.
MATHEMATICAL REQUIREMENTS: "Mathematics" deals with quantities, magnitudes, and forms and their relationships and attributes by the use of numbers and symbols.
Uses addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; may compute ratios, rates, and percentages.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIREMENTS: "Communications" involves the ability to read, write, and speak.
Reads technical instructions, charts, and/or procedures manuals; composes routine reports and completes job forms; speaks compound sentences using standard grammar.
COMPLEXITY OF WORK: "Complexity of Work" addresses the analysis, initiative, ingenuity, creativity, and concentration required by the position and the presence of any unusual pressures.
Performs semi-routine work involving set procedures and rules, but with frequent problems; requires normal attention with short periods of concentration for accurate results or occasional exposure to unusual pressure.
IMPACT OF DECISIONS: "Impact of Decisions" refers to consequences such as damage to property, loss of data or property, exposure of the organization to legal liability, or injury or death to individuals.
Makes decisions with moderately serious impact - affects work unit and may affect other units or citizens.
EQUIPMENT USAGE: "Equipment Usage" refers to inanimate objects such as substances, materials, machines, tools, equipment, work aids, or products. A thing is tangible and has shape, form, and other physical characteristics.
Handles machines, tools, equipment, or work aids involving moderate latitude for judgment regarding attainment of standard or in selecting appropriate items.
SAFETY OF OTHERS: "Safety of Others" refers to the responsibility for other people's safety, either inherent in the job or to assure the safety of the general public.
Requires considerable responsibility for the safety and health of others and/or continuous enforcement of the laws and standards of public health and safety.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: "Education Requirements" refers to job specific training and education required for entry into the position.
Bachelor's degree (Master's degree preferred); literary emphasis preferred.
LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, AND REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED: "Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations" refers to professional, state, or federal licenses, certifications, or registrations required to enter the position.
Valid Tennessee teaching license.
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: "Experience Requirements" refers to the amount of work experience that is required for entry into the position that would result in reasonable expectation that the person can perform the tasks required by the position.
Minimum of three years classroom teaching experience including classroom experience with literacy instruction.
More specific degree, certification, and experience requirements will be included in the position announcement as vacancies occur.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES REQUIREMENTS
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: "Physical Demands" refers to the requirements for physical exertion and coordination of limb and body movement.
Requires light to medium work involving standing or walking most of the time, exerting up to 20 pounds of force on a regular basis, and considerable skill, adeptness, and speed in the use of the fingers, hands, or limbs in tasks involving close tolerances.
UNAVOIDABLE HAZARDS: "Unavoidable Hazards" refers to unusual conditions in the work environment that may cause illness or injury.
The position is exposed to no unusual environmental hazards.
SENSORY (ADA) REQUIREMENTS: "Sensory Requirements" refers to hearing, sight, touch, taste, and smell necessary to perform the tasks required by the position efficiently.
The position requires normal visual acuity and field of vision, hearing, speaking, color perception, and texture perception.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT COMPLIANCE
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires MNPS to provide adequate accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are encouraged to discuss ADA accommodations with management.METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
POSITION DESCRIPTION
Job Title:
Coach - Literacy
FLSA:
Exempt
Job Code & Family
81021; Coaches
Revision Date:
02.13.2014
Salary Plan & Pay Grade:
Certificated, BA
Revised By:
David Moore
EEO Code:
511: Consultants & supervisors of instruction
Comp Reviewed By:
Sheila Armstrong
Grant Funded?
Local
# of months; # of days:
11-mos; 221 days
JOB SUMMARY & PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS
REPORTS TO: Principal & Executive Director of Instruction
DEPARTMENT NAME: Leadership & Learning
JOB SUMMARY (2-3 sentences): Facilitates the implementation of reading/literacy in Pre-K-12 classrooms. Serves as reading instructional coach for teachers. Provides ongoing job-embedded professional development, models effective instructional strategies, and leads discussions in scientifically based reading research with teachers.
PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS: List, in the order of time spent, the essential tasks performed by the position. Employees may be assigned additional duties by management as required.
Job Responsibility 1:
Supports teachers and their work with students in balanced literacy (elementary), middle school literacy, and content area reading.
Job Responsibility 2:
Serves as literacy coach and mentor for balanced literacy (elementary), middle school literacy, and content area reading in planning and collaborating with teachers, facilitating classroom instruction, modelling effective instructional reading strategies for teachers, and providing supportive feedback to teachers.
Job Responsibility 3:
Assists with reading assessments and ensures data is entered into the appropriate data management system. Analyzes assessment results with teachers and administrators and focuses on student data to inform classroom instruction.
Job Responsibility 4:
Provides professional development for teachers in scientifically-based reading research.
Job Responsibility 5:
Coordinates reading/literacy implementation. Reviews trends in reading instruction and communicates current research-based best practices.
Job Responsibility 6:
Maintains and coordinates distribution of resources (e.g., bookroom, classroom libraries).
Job Responsibility 7:
Provides information and training opportunities for parents and community members.
Job Responsibility 8:
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES, REQUIREMENTS, AND IMPACTS
DATA RESPONSIBILITY: "Data Responsibility" refers to information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation. Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations.
Compares or inspects data, people, or things against a standard..
PEOPLE RESPONSIBILITY: "People Responsibility" refers to individuals who have contact with or are influenced by the position.
Follows instructions of supervisor. Maintains confidential relationships with teachers to enhance a trusting relationship.
ASSETS RESPONSIBILITY: "Assets Responsibility" refers to the responsibility for achieving economies or preventing loss within the organization.
Requires responsibility and opportunity for achieving moderate economies and/or preventing moderate losses through the management or handling of supplies of high value or moderate amounts of money.
MATHEMATICAL REQUIREMENTS: "Mathematics" deals with quantities, magnitudes, and forms and their relationships and attributes by the use of numbers and symbols.
Uses addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; may compute ratios, rates, and percentages.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIREMENTS: "Communications" involves the ability to read, write, and speak.
Reads technical instructions, charts, and/or procedures manuals; composes routine reports and completes job forms; speaks compound sentences using standard grammar.
COMPLEXITY OF WORK: "Complexity of Work" addresses the analysis, initiative, ingenuity, creativity, and concentration required by the position and the presence of any unusual pressures.
Performs semi-routine work involving set procedures and rules, but with frequent problems; requires normal attention with short periods of concentration for accurate results or occasional exposure to unusual pressure.
IMPACT OF DECISIONS: "Impact of Decisions" refers to consequences such as damage to property, loss of data or property, exposure of the organization to legal liability, or injury or death to individuals.
Makes decisions with moderately serious impact - affects work unit and may affect other units or citizens.
EQUIPMENT USAGE: "Equipment Usage" refers to inanimate objects such as substances, materials, machines, tools, equipment, work aids, or products. A thing is tangible and has shape, form, and other physical characteristics.
Handles machines, tools, equipmen...
METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
POSITION DESCRIPTION
Job Title:
Coach - Literacy
FLSA:
Exempt
Job Code & Family
81021; Coaches
Revision Date:
02.13.2014
Salary Plan & Pay Grade:
Certificated, BA
Revised By:
David Moore
EEO Code:
511: Consultants & supervisors of instruction
Comp Reviewed By:
Sheila Armstrong
Grant Funded?
Local
# of months; # of days:
11-mos; 221 days
JOB SUMMARY & PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS
REPORTS TO: Principal & Executive Director of Instruction
DEPARTMENT NAME: Leadership & Learning
JOB SUMMARY (2-3 sentences): Facilitates the implementation of reading/literacy in Pre-K-12 classrooms. Serves as reading instructional coach for teachers. Provides ongoing job-embedded professional development, models effective instructional strategies, and leads discussions in scientifically based reading research with teachers.
PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS: List, in the order of time spent, the essential tasks performed by the position. Employees may be assigned additional duties by management as required.
Job Responsibility 1:
Supports teachers and their work with students in balanced literacy (elementary), middle school literacy, and content area reading.
Job Responsibility 2:
Serves as literacy coach and mentor for balanced literacy (elementary), middle school literacy, and content area reading in planning and collaborating with teachers, facilitating classroom instruction, modelling effective instructional reading strategies for teachers, and providing supportive feedback to teachers.
Job Responsibility 3:
Assists with reading assessments and ensures data is entered into the appropriate data management system. Analyzes assessment results with teachers and administrators and focuses on student data to inform classroom instruction.
Job Responsibility 4:
Provides professional development for teachers in scientifically-based reading research.
Job Responsibility 5:
Coordinates reading/literacy implementation. Reviews trends in reading instruction and communicates current research-based best practices.
Job Responsibility 6:
Maintains and coordinates distribution of resources (e.g., bookroom, classroom libraries).
Job Responsibility 7:
Provides information and training opportunities for parents and community members.
Job Responsibility 8:
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES, REQUIREMENTS, AND IMPACTS
DATA RESPONSIBILITY: "Data Responsibility" refers to information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation. Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations.
Compares or inspects data, people, or things against a standard..
PEOPLE RESPONSIBILITY: "People Responsibility" refers to individuals who have contact with or are influenced by the position.
Follows instructions of supervisor. Maintains confidential relationships with teachers to enhance a trusting relationship.
ASSETS RESPONSIBILITY: "Assets Responsibility" refers to the responsibility for achieving economies or preventing loss within the organization.
Requires responsibility and opportunity for achieving moderate economies and/or preventing moderate losses through the management or handling of supplies of high value or moderate amounts of money.
MATHEMATICAL REQUIREMENTS: "Mathematics" deals with quantities, magnitudes, and forms and their relationships and attributes by the use of numbers and symbols.
Uses addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; may compute ratios, rates, and percentages.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIREMENTS: "Communications" involves the ability to read, write, and speak.
Reads technical instructions, charts, and/or procedures manuals; composes routine reports and completes job forms; speaks compound sentences using standard grammar.
COMPLEXITY OF WORK: "Complexity of Work" addresses the analysis, initiative, ingenuity, creativity, and concentration required by the position and the presence of any unusual pressures.
Performs semi-routine work involving set procedures and rules, but with frequent problems; requires normal attention with short periods of concentration for accurate results or occasional exposure to unusual pressure.
IMPACT OF DECISIONS: "Impact of Decisions" refers to consequences such as damage to property, loss of data or property, exposure of the organization to legal liability, or injury or death to individuals.
Makes decisions with moderately serious impact - affects work unit and may affect other units or citizens.
EQUIPMENT USAGE: "Equipment Usage" refers to inanimate objects such as substances, materials, machines, tools, equipment, work aids, or products. A thing is tangible and has shape, form, and other physical characteristics.
Handles machines, tools, equipment, or work aids involving moderate latitude for judgment regarding attainment of standard or in selecting appropriate items.
SAFETY OF OTHERS: "Safety of Others" refers to the responsibility for other people's safety, either inherent in the job or to assure the safety of the general public.
Requires considerable responsibility for the safety and health of others and/or continuous enforcement of the laws and standards of public health and safety.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: "Education Requirements" refers to job specific training and education required for entry into the position.
Bachelor's degree (Master's degree preferred); literary emphasis preferred.
LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, AND REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED: "Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations" refers to professional, state, or federal licenses, certifications, or registrations required to enter the position.
Valid Tennessee teaching license.
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: "Experience Requirements" refers to the amount of work experience that is required for entry into the position that would result in reasonable expectation that the person can perform the tasks required by the position.
Minimum of three years classroom teaching experience including classroom experience with literacy instruction.
More specific degree, certification, and experience requirements will be included in the position announcement as vacancies occur.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES REQUIREMENTS
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: "Physical Demands" refers to the requirements for physical exertion and coordination of limb and body movement.
Requires light to medium work involving standing or walking most of the time, exerting up to 20 pounds of force on a regular basis, and considerable skill, adeptness, and speed in the use of the fingers, hands, or limbs in tasks involving close tolerances.
UNAVOIDABLE HAZARDS: "Unavoidable Hazards" refers to unusual conditions in the work environment that may cause illness or injury.
The position is exposed to no unusual environmental hazards.
SENSORY (ADA) REQUIREMENTS: "Sensory Requirements" refers to hearing, sight, touch, taste, and smell necessary to perform the tasks required by the position efficiently.
The position requires normal visual acuity and field of vision, hearing, speaking, color perception, and texture perception.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT COMPLIANCE
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires MNPS to provide adequate accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are encouraged to discuss ADA accommodations with management.METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
POSITION DESCRIPTION
Job Title:
Coach - Literacy
FLSA:
Exempt
Job Code & Family
81021; Coaches
Revision Date:
02.13.2014
Salary Plan & Pay Grade:
Certificated, BA
Revised By:
David Moore
EEO Code:
511: Consultants & supervisors of instruction
Comp Reviewed By:
Sheila Armstrong
Grant Funded?
Local
# of months; # of days:
11-mos; 221 days
JOB SUMMARY & PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS
REPORTS TO: Principal & Executive Director of Instruction
DEPARTMENT NAME: Leadership & Learning
JOB SUMMARY (2-3 sentences): Facilitates the implementation of reading/literacy in Pre-K-12 classrooms. Serves as reading instructional coach for teachers. Provides ongoing job-embedded professional development, models effective instructional strategies, and leads discussions in scientifically based reading research with teachers.
PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS: List, in the order of time spent, the essential tasks performed by the position. Employees may be assigned additional duties by management as required.
Job Responsibility 1:
Supports teachers and their work with students in balanced literacy (elementary), middle school literacy, and content area reading.
Job Responsibility 2:
Serves as literacy coach and mentor for balanced literacy (elementary), middle school literacy, and content area reading in planning and collaborating with teachers, facilitating classroom instruction, modelling effective instructional reading strategies for teachers, and providing supportive feedback to teachers.
Job Responsibility 3:
Assists with reading assessments and ensures data is entered into the appropriate data management system. Analyzes assessment results with teachers and administrators and focuses on student data to inform classroom instruction.
Job Responsibility 4:
Provides professional development for teachers in scientifically-based reading research.
Job Responsibility 5:
Coordinates reading/literacy implementation. Reviews trends in reading instruction and communicates current research-based best practices.
Job Responsibility 6:
Maintains and coordinates distribution of resources (e.g., bookroom, classroom libraries).
Job Responsibility 7:
Provides information and training opportunities for parents and community members.
Job Responsibility 8:
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES, REQUIREMENTS, AND IMPACTS
DATA RESPONSIBILITY: "Data Responsibility" refers to information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation. Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations.
Compares or inspects data, people, or things against a standard..
PEOPLE RESPONSIBILITY: "People Responsibility" refers to individuals who have contact with or are influenced by the position.
Follows instructions of supervisor. Maintains confidential relationships with teachers to enhance a trusting relationship.
ASSETS RESPONSIBILITY: "Assets Responsibility" refers to the responsibility for achieving economies or preventing loss within the organization.
Requires responsibility and opportunity for achieving moderate economies and/or preventing moderate losses through the management or handling of supplies of high value or moderate amounts of money.
MATHEMATICAL REQUIREMENTS: "Mathematics" deals with quantities, magnitudes, and forms and their relationships and attributes by the use of numbers and symbols.
Uses addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; may compute ratios, rates, and percentages.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIREMENTS: "Communications" involves the ability to read, write, and speak.
Reads technical instructions, charts, and/or procedures manuals; composes routine reports and completes job forms; speaks compound sentences using standard grammar.
COMPLEXITY OF WORK: "Complexity of Work" addresses the analysis, initiative, ingenuity, creativity, and concentration required by the position and the presence of any unusual pressures.
Performs semi-routine work involving set procedures and rules, but with frequent problems; requires normal attention with short periods of concentration for accurate results or occasional exposure to unusual pressure.
IMPACT OF DECISIONS: "Impact of Decisions" refers to consequences such as damage to property, loss of data or property, exposure of the organization to legal liability, or injury or death to individuals.
Makes decisions with moderately serious impact - affects work unit and may affect other units or citizens.
EQUIPMENT USAGE: "Equipment Usage" refers to inanimate objects such as substances, materials, machines, tools, equipment, work aids, or products. A thing is tangible and has shape, form, and other physical characteristics.
Handles machines, tools, equipmen...
