Multi-Classroom Leader (MCL) Full Release

POSITION: Multi-Classroom Leader (MCL)

REPORTS TO: School Principal

SALARY GRADE: State Salary Schedule commensurate with degree certification and experience

NATURE OF WORK

An educator in the Multi-Classroom Leader (MCL) role leads a small team of teachers paraprofessionals and teaching residents in the same grade or subject to meet the MCLs standards of excellence. MCLs establish each team members roles and goals at least annually determine how students spend time and organize teaching roles to fit each teachers strengths content knowledge and professional development goals. The team uses the MCLs methods and tools. The MCL co-plans co-teaches models coaches and gives feedback and leads and supports the team in building a tutoring culture. The MCL also teaches students part of the time. The MCL organizes the team to analyze student learning data and change instruction to ensure high-growth learning for every child with a focus on small-group teaching and tutoring. The MCL collaborates with the team using the teams ideas and innovations that the MCL agrees may improve learning. The MCL also guides and directs any reach associates with whom they work. The MCL is fully accountable for the learning and development of all students taught by the team members.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Planning and Preparation

Set high expectations of achievement that are ambitious and measurable for all students taught by team

Establish methods and create instructional tools and materials that team teachers use in all classrooms

Set direction verbally and with tools and materials that clarify content and teaching process

Lead team to:

• plan backward to align all lessons activities and assessments using a high-standards curriculum
• design and lead instruction that is enriched (developing higher-order thinking skills) and personalized (reflecting learning levels and interests of individual students) prioritizing small-group teaching and tutoring and offering accelerated learning
• design assessments that accurately assess student growth
• prepare to deliver small-group teaching and tutoring

Classroom Environment

Lead team to:

• hold students accountable for high expectations of behavior and engagement that are ambitious and measurable
• create physical classroom environments conducive to collaborative and individual learning
• establish a culture of respect enthusiasm and rapport

Instruction

Lead team to:

• hold students accountable for ambitious measurable standards of academic achievement
• maximize student learning by incorporating small-group teaching and tutoring
• identify and address individual students social emotional and behavioral learning needs and barriers
• identify and address individual students development of organizational and time-management skills
• invest students in their learning using a variety of influence techniques
• incorporate questioning and discussion in teaching
• monitor and analyze student assessment data to inform engaging instruction and small-group teaching and tutoring
• communicate with students and keep them informed of their progress

Professional Responsibilities

Solicit and eagerly receive feedback from supervisor and team members to improve professional skills

Lead team to:

• Maintain regular communication with families and work collaboratively with them to design learning both at home and at school and to encourage a home life conducive to learning success
• Organize and schedule team time to ensure alignment of instructional vision prioritize small-group teaching and tutoring in all classrooms and troubleshoot students persistent learning challenges
• Determine how students spend instructional time based on strengths of all adults on the team
• Allocate instructional process elements (lesson planning minimal large-group instruction a focus on small-group instruction individual interventions data analysis grading etc.) among team based on strengths content knowledge and professional development goals
• Allocate noninstructional administrative duties among team
• Model instructional tasks to aid team development
• Clarify and adjust team members roles and provide feedback developmental advice and assignments to develop their effectiveness
• Participate in professional development opportunities at school