Prek Regional Instructional Specialist

Title: Pre-Kindergarten Regional Instructional Specialist 

Department: Pre-K Partnership Support

Reports To: Early Childhood Field Coordinator 

Job Summary 

Assists school, community-based child care agencies, and teachers in creating a consistent implementation of the schools core curriculum and Pennsylvania’s Early  Learning Standards. As a member of the Early Childhood team, the Pre-Kindergarten  Instructional Specialist participates in instructional walk throughs to analyze teaching  practices, support schools, early childhood centers and teachers, to attain high quality  instructional practices, and provide professional development support based on teacher,  school, or early childhood site needs. Provides on-going, daily informal and formal  classroom assessments and instructional best practices to meet the needs of individual  student in attaining educational excellence. 

Essential Functions 

• Serves as a member of the Early Childhood Team and participates in regular Walk  Throughs of Pre-Kindergarten classes in schools, off-sites, and community-based  child care partner sites. 

• Debriefs with teachers, school leadership teams, partner directors, and Early  Childhood staff to analyze and support the instructional practices in schools and/or early childhood sites. 

• Plans and administers (in collaboration with the central and academic offices) the  implementation of instructional strategies to support academic achievement.

• Develops, designs and delivers professional development for central and academic offices, principals, leadership teams, teachers, classroom assistants, and partner staff based on the needs of schools, early childhood sites and teachers.

• Visits schools, partner sites, and classrooms and provides support to improve  instructional and assessment strategies, outside of the Walk Throughs.

• Encourages a continuous exchange of ideas and maintains a relationship with the  assigned academic division. 

• Develops strategies that connect curriculum, instruction, assessment and professional development for effective data driven interventions to improve teaching and learning. 

• Supports teachers in delivering on-the-spot, in-classroom data-driven instruction.

• Supports teachers in creating interventions (strategy groups, conferencing, small  groups, etc) based on formal and informal assessment results. 

• Supports teachers in the use of on-going periodic assessment results on their students and how to best use the results to deliver differentiated instruction.

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