MIDDLE SCHOOL DESIGN THINKING INSTRUCTIONAL COACH (TEACHER) DESCRIPTION

Position: Instructional Coach (Teacher)

Reports To: Principal

Salary:  Commensurate with experience and qualifications

Benefits: Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System (TSERS) and NC State Health Plan

FLSA Status: Exempt

Work Week Schedule: Monday – Friday

Work Hours:  7:45AM – 4:00PM; occasional evenings and weekends

Employment Term: 10 months

Northeast Academy for Aerospace and Advanced Technologies is a public regional STEM school located in a newly renovated, 62,000 sq ft facility in the heart of Elizabeth City, less than an hour drive from the beautiful Outer Banks and the metropolitan Tidewater Virginia area. Our coaches facilitate learning through hands-on, project and problem based instruction thoughtfully designed to challenge students. We encourage and support each other to think differently, creatively, and purposefully about teaching and learning, keeping with the idea that we’re all teachers, we’re all learners, and we all have potential for high intellectual and professional growth throughout our lives.

Position Purpose

Coaches (teachers) at NEAAAT demonstrate a commitment to ensure that every student graduates from high school ready for college, careers, and life. Through rigorous teaching and learning based on a common instructional framework, Coaching and Learning the NEAAAT Way, and a set of common core values that include teamwork, inclusiveness, challenge, professionalism, innovation, and service, educators at NEAAAT partner with students to foster a culture of collaborative learning. Instructional coaches strive to provide students with the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) knowledge, skills, and dispositions that will enable them to participate fully in a technologically-rich, contemporary society. Our team is positive, enthusiastic, and proactive, with a demonstrated passion for working with middle and high school age students.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Plan, prepare, and deliver rigorous engaging lessons in ways that build upon individual strengths and offer students maximum opportunities to participate in the planning and direction of their own learning experience 
• Engage all students in learning using a contextual project based instructional format
• Lead students to develop soft skills, including critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills
• Utilize technology to facilitate instruction and maximize student learning
• Employ a variety of assessment tools and strategies to measure student progress toward learning, college and career goals
• Identify and select different instructional resources and methods to meet students' varying needs
• Counsel students through service as an Advisor in the Advisory Program
• Promote high expectations and the skills needed for success beyond high school
• Communicate necessary information regularly to students, colleagues and parents regarding student progress and student needs
• Promote family support of students’ learning experience within the context of multicultural understanding and competencies
• Promote and enhance the instructional program by leveraging home, school, and community partnerships to address barriers to learning and achievement
• Develop and provide training and educational programs that address the goals and mission of the educational institution
• Demonstrate personal commitment to professional growth through participation in professional learning activities 
• Contributes as a member of a high performing team
• Performs other duties as assigned and as necessary to fulfill the day-to-day needs of the school

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong academic foundation with the ability to integrate STEM across content areas
• Understanding of the emotional and social development of children and the influences of family, community, and cultural differences on student success
• Familiarity with current trends and leading innovations in education
• Ability to work effectively in a collegial, team-centered environment
• Intrinsically motivated and dedicated to continuous professional and personal growth
• Ability to effectively engage parents and community in the learning process
• Represents the school positively in the community. 
• Excellent organizational skills and communication skills, both written and oral
• Understands the critical nature of building positive working relationships with students, parents and colleagues
• Effective in integrating technology into the classroom to enhance learning

Education, Training, Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in education or related field; Master’s degree or higher preferred
• Minimum of three years experience as a middle or high school teacher preferred

Certification and License Requirements

• NC Professional Educator’s License preferred, but not required; Must be eligible to obtain license within 3 years

Other

• Possess a deep commitment to serve the needs of students and families who are first generation college goers and those typically underrepresented in postsecondary education and STEM fields
• Serves as a brand ambassador for the school and, in doing so, models a personal commitment to excellence and strong adherence to the school’s core values through verbal/written communications, behaviors and actions.

NEAAAT provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, NEAAAT complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.

Revised: June 30, 2023