Instructional Coach - NYCTF

Instructional Coaches support both Assistant Professors and their cohort of NYC Teaching Fellows through the two-year Relay GSE Master's program. In doing so, they play a pivotal role in providing future Relay GSE graduates with the best possible differentiated preparation. Instructional Coaches' duties are challenging and diverse. They range from supporting Assistant Professors in instructional preparation and delivery to guiding students through their Relay GSE experience through classroom observations, personalized feedback, and grading. Instructional Coaches have the opportunity to build deep relationships with their graduate students and support them to generate significant, measurable student achievement gains in their K-12 classrooms.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Supports Assistant Professors in the following ways:

• Provides a first audience for feedback and iteration of their weekly instruction
• Aids in the facilitation and delivery of weeknight classes by orchestrating and supervising student practice and small-group work; providing tactical observation and feedback to graduate students; answering questions; assisting in activities; and running all logistical elements of class time
• Grades assessments, synthesizes performance data, tracks cohort progress and identifies gaps in graduate student understanding

Ensures graduate students' progress and success in the following ways:

• Observes Fellows in their own classrooms at least monthly as their primary source of practical evaluation and provides them with specific, actionable feedback around best teaching practices
• Provides struggling Fellows with additional classroom support and non-evaluative observations at least monthly
• Holds routine office hours
• Serves as the first responder and primary contact for graduate student questions, channeling only the most difficult questions to Assistant Professors
• Grades and provides quality feedback to graduate students on Relay GSE assessments
• Creates and maintains a positive work environment and sense of community with all graduate students
• Performs other related duties as required and assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

First and foremost, Instructional Fellows must share the team's sense of urgency about the need to improve student achievement through phenomenal teacher preparation. Additionally, candidates for the position must possess the following:

• A Master's degree or PhD
• At least four years of teaching experience in a high-needs community with demonstrated K-12 student achievement, district teaching experience preferred
• At least one to two years of instructional coaching experience
• Strong student and team orientation and collaborative nature
• Ability to work efficiently and intensely in an entrepreneurial environment
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• A demonstrated passion for urban education and closing the opportunity gap

ABOUT US

The Relay Graduate School of Education (Relay GSE) is a groundbreaking graduate school with an innovative Master's degree program designed specifically to respond to today's urgent demand for effective and successful teachers. In the 2012-2013 school year, Relay GSE serves over 650 graduate or alternate route program students in both New York and New Jersey.

Relay GSE's mission is to teach teachers to develop in all students the academic skills and strength of character needed to succeed in college and life. Our academic programs — practically focused, reinforced by the proven practices of high-performing schools, and substantiated by research — were designed to enable our graduates to lead their predominantly urban students to demonstrable annual achievement gains. Relay GSE is positioned to bring about transformational change in teacher preparation, becoming the place where a new generation of continuously-improving, results-focused individuals can fulfill their destiny in the world's greatest profession.

Relay Graduate School of Education provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees.