Academic Coach-Zahle

The duties and responsibilities of the Coach include:

1. Participate in all required Coaching professional development/training: 

• The Coach is in charge of acquiring the knowledge, skills, and instructional strategies necessary to effectively impact the instructional practices of the teachers that are coached.   
• He/she must update their knowledge about current and past research in education and other pedagogies relevant to the Coaching role.

2. Identify barriers and weaknesses by:

• Collecting and analyzing teacher and student data.
• Organizing and implementing problem-solving actions with teachers

3. Facilitate the development of high quality of teaching by:

• Working with teachers (in teams or individually) to improve their knowledge and skills. 
• Training, in-class Coaching, observing and modeling of instructional strategies.
• Mentoring teachers while assessing student work.
• Developing lesson plans with teachers based on assessment.
• Supporting data analysis.
• Coaching instructional effectiveness and student progress through:
• Using Coaching, assessment and evaluation tools.
• Observing, documenting and submitting reports.
• Building and maintaining confidential and respective relationships with teachers, students and other staff members:
• Keeping the conversations and interactions that the Coach has with teachers, teachers’ assistant and field officers confidential so that a high level of trust is created and maintained.
• Sharing information and reports only with staff members; specifically project director, coordinators and trainers.
• Giving constructive and objective feedback to ensure professional development.
• Documenting all visits in writing to be submitted regularly to the project coordinator.

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