Required Duties

Schedule

The Teaching Coach role requires a commitment of 8-12 hours per week. It is possible to work up to 20 hours per week by doing a weekly placement for your own teaching along with coaching the other instructors.

The Teaching Coach must have some availability during the hours of afterschool program, in order to make it possible for them to visit program to observe the instructors while they're teaching. Afterschool program is held Monday-Friday, with instructors teaching sessions anywhere between 2:45 and 5:30, depending on the exact schedule of each site.

The training and ongoing check-in sessions the Teaching Coach leads for instructors will likely need to take place during some evening and/or weekend hours. The Teaching Coach will work together with the instructors to schedule training sessions.

Responsibilities

• Adding to materials from past years, design and implement training sessions to introduce Dance Teaching Associates to lesson planning methods and assets-based classroom management strategies. Guide teaching teams in developing their plans.
• Coach Theatre and Marching Band Associates on best practices for assisting experienced teachers.
• Guide teaching teams in the development of their co-teaching methods and relationship. (Most teams don’t know each other before starting their positions.)
• Engage Associates in identifying aspects of their own teaching practice that they want to assess and build on.
• Visit each dance teaching team in action at least once per semester. Observe, assess, devise strategies for enacting that improvement.
• Meet with dance teaching teams to discuss the assessments and make plans for improvement.
• Connect Associates with other resources that could help them with their specific needs (reading material, activity descriptions, trainings led by others, etc)
• Problem-solve with Associates as needed throughout the semester.
• Draft year-end report on Teaching Coach and Associates activities.

Preferred Qualification and Essential Skills

• Responsibility, reliability, and dedication: we are looking for applicants who will follow through on their commitments.
• Experience teaching or working with K-8 students, preferably in urban American schools, is required.
• Interest and/or background in one or more areas of the performing arts
• Knowledge of Backward Design unit / lesson planning model; knowledge of culturally-informed and age-appropriate classroom management strategies for elementary and middle school students.
• Understanding of asset-based approach to working with students and communities, or eagerness to learn this approach
• Willingness and skill to lead training sessions that are interactive and workshop-style, so that teaching teams accomplish preparation tasks during the sessions with guidance from the coaches, rather than leaving the training with a long to-do list.
• Comfortable providing constructive feedback to instructors, both in person and in writing.
• Excellent observation, communication, and organization skills

Application Instructions

Complete the application form at https://bit.ly/teachingcoach2026  

Netter Center Arts Partnerships Director will begin reviewing applications on August 18

Target hire date is September 1, but position will remain open until filled