Instructional Support Coach Infant/Toddler

Instructional Support Coach Infant Toddler

As stewards of the Vincentian spirit, employees of Marillac St. Vincent Family Services are committed to strengthening and empowering those most in need to reach their greatest potential. We fulfill our mission through quality programs for children, teens, families, seniors and homeless.

Our employees commit themselves as individuals to live out the core values of integrity, excellence, creativity, advocacy, respect, and empowerment in our daily work, as we serve the needs of others.

Integrity - Acting with transparency, humility, and honesty.

Excellence - Providing quality care with compassion.

Creativity - Being continuously resourceful and inventive.

Advocacy - Supporting the cause of those who lack resources for a reasonable quality of life

Respect - Recognizing our own value and upholding the dignity and value of all people

Empowerment - Providing skills and resources to achieve full human development.

Team Behaviors

1. Versatility – Understanding and appreciating different and opposing perspectives on an issue; adapting one's approach as the requirements of the situation change; an eagerness for positive action; self-control; active listening.
2. A collaborative work model – Cooperatively working and sharing responsibility; contributing to the group effort; realizing a sense of commitment and ownership in the success of the organization's goals.
3. Mutual accountability – Holds others accountable with their roles; provides and receives feedback and takes constructive action.
4. Client/customer advocate – Identifies opportunities to improve quality of services; presents one's self professionally.
5. Protects confidentiality & privacy – Respects and protects information about all staff and clients.

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.

• 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.

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