Behavior Instructional Coach
Behavior Instructional Coach
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Job Description
Primary Purpose:
The Behavior Instructional Coach will provide support to campuses in implementing effective behavioral practices and strategies. The role focuses on improving student behavior promoting positive classroom environments and supporting staff with interventions and classroom management.
Education/Certification:
- Bachelors Degree
- Valid Texas Teacher Certification
Qualifications:
- Highly qualified teacher with Texas certification.
- Minimum of five years successful elementary classroom teaching experience in which the teaching of at risk and/or behaviorally challenged students was an important responsibility for the position.
- Knowledge of functionbased intervention planning for developing behavior change strategies that focuses on reducing problem behavior and increasing more appropriate behavior.
- Knowledge of techniques needed to successfully complete effective Functional Behavior Assessments (FBA) functionbased interventionists and Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP).
- Exceptional knowledge in the use of assessment and assessment data to inform instruction and prescribe work plans for individual students.
- Knowledge in research based instructional strategies and ability to implement them effectively.
- Exceptional knowledge in the use of technology to support instruction.
- Demonstrate ability to plan and evaluate strategies for improving instruction.
- Ascribes to the philosophy that all children can succeed and demonstrates the commitment to do what is necessary to make this a reality.
- Demonstrates exceptional skill in the roles of a teacher leader: collaborator action researcher reflective practitioner and learner advocate.
Scope of Position:
The Behavior Instructional Coach provides leadership and direction at the school level working to design implement coordinate and evaluate a comprehensive behavior support program. In addition the Behavior Instructional Coach works directly and aggressively with identified students to adopt behaviors that substantially increase their academic performance. Under the supervision of the building principal and district representative the Behavior Instructional Coach will provide diversified strategies and activities specifically designed for targeted students.
Major Responsibilities and Duties:
- Effectively support student acquisition of core curriculum and content standards identified by the State of Texas and Corsicana ISD.
- Assist staff in: defining and measuring behavior; understanding principles of reinforcement; teaching new behavior; implementing strategies for weakening behavior; and identifying antecedents.
- Facilitate team meetings with the identified students teachers and parents for the purpose of completing a Functional Behavior Assessment.
- Facilitate team meetings that: design Behavior Interventions Plans; address classroom organization effective instruction social skills instruction and ethical issues; Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Support; and factors that affect effectiveness including social validity and treatment integrity.
- Work with individual teachers groups of teachers and/or the entire staff on issues such as: crisis intervention learning and collaboration issues and factors that can affect development and implementation of interventions.
- Promote highly specialized positive behavior interventions in which at risk students thrive: behavior instruction that is explicit intensive accelerated and provides ample practice.
- Use ongoing assessments to maintain a record of student progress.
- Develop a repertoire of assessment strategies consistent with instructional goals teaching methods and individual student needs to more accurately assess student behavior skills and understandings.
- Regard assessment as a joint venture through which both student and teacher understanding is enhanced.
- Create fair and equitable assessments to assess higherorder thinking and problem solving as well as individual skills knowledge and understandings.
- Model good assessment processes that assist students in assessing their own work and behavior.
- Provide recognition of a variety of student accomplishments and positive behaviors.
- Work cooperatively with building administrators to promote positive student behavior by providing professional development that targets research strategies and modeling of instructional practices to support teachers in their implementation of positive behavior support in their classrooms.
- Continually supervise students to ensure a safe nonthreatening nurturing environment where students can thrive.
- Engage in ongoing professional development to increase knowledge and skills of positive student behavior support to all students targe4ted students and students who represent subgroup populations.
- Engage parents in the student behavior intervention plan process and empower parents by providing them with skills and techniques to support the positive behavior development of their child.
- Conduct conflict resolution and peer mediation sessions.
- Review behavior referrals and SWIS data reports.
- Participate in building level MiBLSI team and/or grade level meetings as appropriate.
- Consult with school counselor and teachers.
- Attend professional development opportunities to maintain high level of skill and knowledge of current research and practices.
- Serve as a consultant to administrators teachers and parents.
- Organize and schedule time commitments to meet demands of the job.
- Comply with all safety policies practices and procedures; report all unsafe activities to supervisor and/or Human Resources.
- Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve District Building departmental and/or grade level goals.
- Provide leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge/skill.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
None
Working Conditions:
Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:
- Maintain emotional control under stress. Work with frequent interruptions prolonged and irregular hours. Frequent districtwide travel.
- Prolonged sitting. Occasional bending/stooping pushing/pulling and twisting
- Repetitive hand motions including frequent keyboarding and use of mouse
- Occasional light lifting and carrying (less than 15 pounds)
Corsicana ISD (CISD) does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race color religion gender national origin age disability military status genetic information or on any other basis prohibited by law. Additionally the district does not discriminate against an employee or applicant who acts to oppose such discrimination or participates in the investigation of a complaint related to a discriminatory employment practice. Employment decisions will be made on the basis of each applicants job qualifications experience and abilities.
Employees with questions or concerns about discrimination based on sex including sexual harassment should contact the CISD Director of Human Resources the district Title IX coordinator. Employees with questions or concerns about discrimination on the basis of a disability should contact the CISD Transition Coordinator the district ADA/Section 504 coordinator. Questions or concerns relating to discrimination for any other reason should be directed to the Superintendent at the Lee Education Center 2200 W. 4th Ave Corsicana TX 75110 phone (903).
Employment Type
Full-Time
