4652-Campus Content Specialist Pool – English 9-12

Position Type:

Certified/Campus Content Specialist High School

Date Posted:

2/2/2024

Location:

Executive Director – C&I/Staff

Date Available:

08/01/2024

Closing Date:

07/31/2024

JOB TITLE: Campus Content Specialist 

DUTY DAYS: 215 Days

PAY GRADE: T11-T12

SALARY SCHEDULE: Click for Salary Schedule

Primary Purpose:

To partner with the campus coaches on assigned campuses to provide instructional support to teachers and to serve as an instructional liaison between the district Curriculum and Instruction department and the campuses.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education/Certification:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree, preferred
• Must meet TEA certification and/or endorsement requirements
• ESL Certification, preferred

Special Knowledge/Skills:

• Minimum 5 years teaching experience with proven success in the content area(s) associated with the position preferred
• Minimum of 3 years experience as campus coach in the applicable content area preferred
• Experience teaching, mentoring, and coaching adult learners.
• Experience working with English language learners in a classroom setting
• Knowledge of second language acquisition with an emphasis on ELPS
• Knowledge of a variety of effective instruction strategies and classroom management
• Strong communicator and interpersonal skills

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

Campus Responsibilities: 

?Partner with the campus coach to maximize impact in the following areas:

1. Disseminating relevant and timely updates to teachers and campus leaders regarding the state assessments.
2. Facilitating vertical and/or horizontal meetings to plan instruction and to develop campus based common assessments.
3. Developing model lessons that reflect rigor, relevance and best practices and share with other campus and district specialists, teachers, and other staff members as appropriate.
4. Ensuring that all teachers are familiar with and use the TEKS and specifically the Student Expectations and pertinent district curriculum documents to inform instruction.
5. Modeling the effective use of research-best practices in demonstration lessons for teachers to observe.
6. Conducting instructional coaching observations/walkthroughs in order to provide instructional support, collect and organize data to generate conversation, evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum, and provide feedback to teachers.
7. Providing opportunities for teachers to participate in peer observation(s).
8. Collaborating with campus team members to design, schedule, and implement intervention programs.
9. Facilitating data analysis activities to determine campus strengths and weaknesses to inform instructional decisions.
10. Participating in and leading campus professional development activities.
11. Maintaining effective working relationships and good rapport with colleagues and other campus stakeholders.
12. District Responsibilities:Providing district representatives with feedback regarding needed professional development, the effectiveness of the district curriculum, and the implementation of new programs and initiatives, etc.
13. Leading and attending district professional development activities.
14. Sharing information, ideas for improvement, lessons learned and teaching strategies with campus coaches on other campuses and with district specialists.
15. Supporting district initiatives.
16. Maintaining effective working relationships and good rapport with colleagues and other district stakeholders.
17. Maintaining an activity log.

Assist District Content Instructional Specialists with:

1. Planning, scheduling, and delivering of professional development sessions for all PISD campus coaches and teachers
2. Developing curriculum documents including audits/rewrites/revisions.
3. Developing district assessments including benchmarks, CBA, summative exams, etc.
4. Developing acceleration and enrichment programs.
5. Other duties as assigned.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

Mental Demands:

Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing; maintain emotional control under stress; interpret policy, procedures, and data; coordinate district functions; sustained concentration for long periods of time, ability to think clearly during stressful situations, able to generate creative approaches to complex problems, capacity to negotiate varying viewpoints at one time, and able to empathize with stakeholders served.

Physical Demands and Environment Factors:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, hear, stand, and walk. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, and will frequently repeat the same hand, arm, or finger motions such as when typing. The employee will frequently interact with the public, parents,students, and staff members. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. The general office environment noise level is quiet to loud depending on the activity. The employee must frequently meet multiple demands from several people.

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