K-12 Professional Development Leader

Center for Teacher Effectiveness; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Center for Teacher Effectiveness is recruiting trainers to lead classroom management trainings for K-12 staff, in person at schools or online, around Louisville, Jeffersontown, St. Matthews, and cross-river in Jeffersonville or New Albany.

This is 1099 contract work with no guaranteed hours and pay of about $1,000 per training day. Trainers typically are current or former teachers or administrators who fit trainings into evenings, weekends, and summers.

Qualifications

• Current or former K-12 teachers or administrators.

Responsibilities

• Lead classroom management trainings for K-12 staff, in person at schools or online.
• Coordinate outreach and scheduling of trainings for schools and districts.
• Assist in contract preparation and negotiations as guided by the National Director.
• Complete Weekend Certification online and participate in orientation and ongoing support.

Job description

Plenty of instructional coaches and department heads already run the PD at their own school. If you're one of them and you live around Louisville, Jeffersontown, or St. Matthews, or across the river in Jeffersonville or New Albany, you could lead that kind of training for other schools too.

We're the Center for Teacher Effectiveness. Since 1993 we've trained more than 400,000 educators in all 50 states, and our trainers lead classroom management sessions for K-12 staff, in person at schools or online.

Schools usually hear about a training because a trainer contacted them first. Certification walks you through that outreach. After a school agrees to a date, a National Director writes up the contract and takes care of the negotiating. There are no territories, so you can work in your own district, around Kentucky and southern Indiana, or anywhere else in the country.

It's 1099 contract work. Hours are not guaranteed, and the number of trainings you lead can change a lot from one year to the next. A training day usually pays $1,000 or more, and trainers are paid on Fridays.

To get started, you complete the Weekend Certification online: 36 hours spread over three days on two weekends. You can earn 4 graduate credits for it through UMass Global. After certification you get an orientation, all of the training materials, and continuing support.

The role suits current and former K-12 teachers as well as coaches, counselors, principals, and other educators. Most trainers are working teachers or administrators who fit trainings into evenings, weekends, personal days, and summers. Students are welcome too, provided they plan to complete certification.