Instructional Support Coach Infant/Toddler

• General Summary
• The instructional support coach will support education staff (Master teachers, teachers, and assistant teachers) in improving instructional quality by refining classroom implementation practices which will lead mastery as early childhood professionals.
• Mentor and coach lead teachers, teachers and assistant teaching staff through weekly observation, goal-planning, and quarterly data analysis quarterly.
• Assist in long-term strategic planning to assess and improve early childhood outcomes through analyzation of data monthly.

• 1. Ensure a high-quality program that represents best practices in infant toddler care & education and meets the standards of Illinois Licensing, NAEYC, DFSS, DCFS, and ExceleRate. 2. Review lesson plans and provide teachers with feedback and recommendations. 3. Provide coaching to lead teachers, teachers, and teacher assistants. 4. Orientated new teachers to classroom practices. 5. Observe weekly in the classrooms:
• assess staff performance and the quality of the curriculum program.
• model appropriate behaviors
• resolve conflicts, demonstrate reflective problem-solving.
• provide hands on assistance, recognition, and feedback. 6. Support peer observation and learning between sites and classrooms. 7. Oversee professional development for staff including conducting a:
• program meeting once per month,
• offering, or scheduling professional development workshops as needed to support each teacher’s annual goals and areas of improvement for classroom practices. 8. Attend funders education coordinators meetings, professional conferences and workshops as designated by Program Site Director or Senior Director of Early Childhood 9. Collaborate with diverse Learner coordinator to ensure that the push in model in classroom is a response to challenging behavior. 10. Support classroom teams in coordinating and implementing research-based interventions for academic and behavior success. 11. Act with integrity and aspire to model our Core Values in the delivery of all services.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Communication
• Ability to facilitate group discussion on reflective practice.
• Ability to give feedback verbally and written around classroom practice.
• Ability to facilitate individual crucial conversations to impact practice.
• Ability to facilitate data dialogue with classroom team to improve classroom practice and outcome data.

• Coaching
• Coach for all classroom teachers in the classroom and create an individual coaching plan.
• Engage education staff in individual and group reflective coaching to all teachers based upon the coaching plan that was created to discuss observations and develop a plan to strengthen challenging areas and build on areas of strength.
• Model developmentally appropriate practice for Master, Teacher and Assistant Teachers
• Coaching responsibility including:
• Complete and execute collaborative staff goal setting and implementation with all teachers which include:
• Strengthening teacher child interactions, curriculum development, child assessments, observation, and documentation, integrating content through studies and partnering with families.
• Review staff goals quarterly, develop new goals (if applicable), and provide feedback and guidance.
• Meet once a month with classroom team to provide feedback and guidance.

• Administration
• Work Collaboratively with site management team to ensure classroom ratio, licensing, funding and educational requirement so teaching staff.
• Ensure all required program documentation is completed accurately, maintained and submitted in a timely manner: coaching plans, data dialogues, team meetings, classroom observations, assessments, assessment results for parents, parent teacher conference and home visits.
• Monitor and ensure that daily attendance and meal participation reports are completed.
• Ensure all confidential information is protected.
• Work collaboratively with Assistant Director and Director to assess strengths, challenges and develop goals annually for infant toddler teaching staff.
• Complete monthly classroom observations for infant and toddler classrooms and provide feedback to individual and classroom teams using CLASS assessment tool.
• Attend each classroom team meeting monthly to observe planning and provide feedback on activity planning based on TSG and CLASS data

• Child Development
• Ensure that all infant and toddler teachers are observing, assessing and documenting each child’s health, skills, behavior, growth and development.
• Ensure that all infant toddler teachers provide opportunities for the children to develop positive self-images and experience success.
• Ensure that all infant toddler teachers have developed and incorporated individualized educational activities into the lesson plan for each child.
• Ensure that staff is incorporating new curriculum goals & objectives to fit children's age-appropriate physical, social, educational, and emotional needs by keeping abreast of funders and state-wide curriculum an initiative.

• Curriculum
• Ensure that all infant and toddler teachers plan and implement developmentally appropriate classroom activities which will promote the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development of each child and work collaboratively as a team to develop lesson plans with goals, objectives, activities and outcomes for children that integrate health, nutrition, mental health, diverse learners, and parent involvement into the plans.
• Work collaboratively with infant toddler teachers and site management team to implement and assess the program’s educational plan.
• Work collaboratively with infant toddler teachers and support staff to integrate assessment results into curriculum and lesson planning.
• Support and model classroom teams in coordinating and implementing research-based interventions for academic and behavioral success (SAIG)
• Identify resources and materials that will support instructional quality and integrate them into program practice.
• Order supplies, purchase classroom equipment/materials, and monitor budget usage to support curriculum plan.
• Ensure regular rotation of materials within classrooms.
• Work collaboratively with teaching staff to plan and schedule onsite and offsite fieldtrips for classroom including calendar of events, securing fees and transportation arrangements.

Data & Assessments

• Ensure that all assessments are completed and submitted in a timely manner, parents receive their assessments results, and all rescreen and refer assessment are followed up on in a timely manner.
• Ensure that classroom team has data dialogue to able to complete quarterly analysis with fidelity. As well as the ability to analyze and aggregate data to analyze to provide staff with suggestions on site training and technical support for classroom to impact practice.
• Ensure that weekly classroom data is be enter into system in a timely manner.
• Ensure that classroom team has data dialogue to be able to complete quarterly data analysis with fidelity.
• Administer screening or pre/post testing as needed to inform classroom practice.
• Ensure classroom completes and submits quarterly data analysis in a timely manner.
• Ensure that staff complete all TSG trainings in a timely manner, entering documentation and checkpoints with fidelity and maintaining child education and disabilities files.
• Ensure that all Infant toddler staff complete ASQ & ASQ-SE screenings and inform parents of results.
• Ensure classroom staff is compiling information for the TSG analysis of data to inform practices.
• Input classroom data into appropriate information systems.
• Ability to analyze and aggregate data to analyze to provide staff with suggestions on site training and technical support for classroom team to impact practice.

• Classroom Environment, Health & Safety
• Ensure that classroom team maintain a clean and safe environment by organizing classroom supplies, monitoring the care of equipment, playroom, playgrounds, and buses and create requisition for repairs and follow up on job completion.
• Ensure and models that infant toddler teachers establish research-based classroom intervention for academic and behavior success, collaborate with diverse learner coordinator to ensure that push in model as response to child with challenging behavior and ensure that active supervision of children is always practiced within classrooms, outside, neighborhood walks and fieldtrips.
• Ensure that all infant toddler teachers establish and create a secure environment that invites learning through exploration and discovery.
• Ensure that all infant toddler teachers care for equipment and materials.

• Parent Involvement
• In coordination with site management team and infant toddler teachers ensure that:
• Parent and teacher conferences are completed and documented for each child
• Encourage and provide opportunities for parent participation in the program.
• Encourage family engagement, including quarterly Family Engagement Events.
• Work collaboratively with diverse learner coordinator, family support and parents to create home/ school positive behavior plans.
• Ensure proper documentation and coordinate staffings support, and continued adjustment of strategies for children with differing abilities and disabilities in conjunction with Family Support Staff.

• Professional Development
• Attend all teacher required meetings and trainings, including mentoring and coaching cohorts.
• Regularly participate and make contributions at teacher meetings, trainings, supervision, weekly team meetings; etc.
• Complete a minimal of (20) Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) annually (5- gateway approved) to meet DCFS and quality rating standards.
• Maintain professional development records for DCFS and NAEYC Accreditation standards.
• Identify professional development opportunities offered by funders, regional professional development providers and others that align to teaching staff goals and needs.

• Performs other duties as assigned within the scope of the job description.
• Track the utilization of materials, recommends supplies, equipment and supplies needed for program.
• Provide classroom coverage as needed to ensure teacher, child ratios.
• Provide recommendations in the evaluations and coaching of Teacher Assistants.
• Perform other duties related to the job (including but not limited to interviewing prospective new staff; coordinating special projects; planning strategies for moving children; providing back-up coverage for Assistant Director and Program Site Director)

Job Requirements

• Education & Credentials
• Bachelor's degree in early childhood education or child development, or relevant field
• Maintain status as a certified Infant Toddler CLASS Assessor
• Gateways Early Childhood Education Credential Level 5 and Infant Toddler Credential Level 5 required.

• Experience
• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience infant toddler children in a high quality center;
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a role Supervising or Coaching/Mentoring teachers; Proficiency with Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies Gold.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working with TS GOLD, analyzing and aggregating gold data

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills verbal.
• Ability to foster and work in a team approach.
• Able to participate in/chaperone all classroom and Child Care program related outings including recreational activities.
• Requires emotional maturity, respect and patience for children to: model appropriate behavior and contribute to each child's physical, intellectual, social, emotional and developmental needs.
• Able to attend to physical need of children.
• Capable of providing for physical safety of active (infant/toddler, preschool, school- age) children in her/his care. Computer skill, software management skills.

Language

Must be able to read and write in English at a level sufficient to successfully perform required duties and understand and carry out both oral and written instructions in an independent manner.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 1.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• 2.
• Possess the ability to fulfill and any all-office activities normally expected in an office setting, to include, but not limited to: remaining seated for periods of time to perform computer entry, participating in filing activity, lifting and carrying office supplies (paper reams, mail, etc.) 3.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move approximately 30 pounds without assistance.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Student Classroom 2. Playground outside 3. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud