T - Instructional Designer

Chesterfield County Public Schools; United States; On-site; USD 68,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Chesterfield County Public Schools in Virginia is seeking an Instructional Designer to join the school leadership team. The role partners with administrators and teachers to meet student needs through engaging experiences, data-driven decision making, and technology-enhanced instruction.

You will lead professional learning, support SIIP goals, and build teacher capacity with coaching, modeling lessons, and feedback cycles, while coordinating with content specialists across content areas.

Qualifications

• Valid Virginia teaching license and two years of successful teaching experience.
• Strong knowledge of instruction concepts and K-12 curriculum practices.
• Experience delivering and integrating instructional technology in classrooms.
• Proficiency with PC hardware/software, web apps, and basic networking.
• Expertise with Google/G-Suite applications.
• Experience with learning management systems and online instructional management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead professional learning and curriculum development aligned to SIIP and Imagine Tomorrow.
• Collaborate with school admin to enhance student learning through technology.
• Provide coaching and modeling to teachers on instructional practices.
• Analyze student performance data to inform instructional decisions.
• Coordinate and train staff in using technology in instruction.
• Support data management for school support services.
• Stay current with curriculum and instructional technology trends.

Skills

Instructional design

Educational technology

Data analysis

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Virginia teaching license

Two years teaching experience

Technology endorsement/degree

Job description

Our outstanding teachers, support staff members and leaders are top-notch educators whom others seek to emulate, and quite simply – we would like for you to consider joining us.

General Description:

An Instructional Designer is a contributing member of the school leadership team who provides leadership to teachers and support staff that impacts student achievement. The primary role of the Instructional Designer is to be a collaborative partner with school administrators and teachers in meeting the individual needs of students through both authentic and captivating experiences. This work includes supporting teachers in developing and implementing student-engaged assessment practices and instructional experiences that foster disciplinary and transdisciplinary impacts, customizing the curriculum to meet student needs in a way that is responsive and inclusive of the whole child, and utilizing technology to leverage instruction, personalize learning, and promote student agency. The role of the Instructional Designer is also to help lead and participate in district-wide professional learning opportunities that support enhancing the instructional impact throughout the division.

Job Description:

Essential Job Functions:

• Embodies the four core values of Imagine Tomorrow - integrity, equity, teamwork, and ingenuity
• Supports the development and implementation of the School Innovation and Improvement Plan (SIIP) that is aligned to Imagine Tomorrow, the district strategic plan
• Works collaboratively with the school administrative team to ensure impactful professional learning, implementation of curriculum, and enhancement of student learning through the use of technology
• Provides leadership in supporting the alignment of teachers’ instructional practices to the SIIP goals
• Engages with individual teachers or groups of teachers and administrators in the analysis of student performance data and instructional decisions based on the data
• Enacts a flexible problem-solving approach that utilizes the continuous improvement cycle
• Implements a teacher coaching model inclusive of planning, modeling, implementing, and reflecting
• Builds the capacity of teachers, in partnership with school leaders, through learning walks, modeling lessons, solving implementation dilemmas, and providing feedback cycles
• Works collaboratively with individual teachers or groups of teachers to integrate technology into instruction through technology-related professional development for school staff
• Uses Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) as a framework to ensure technical, pedagogical, and curricular objectives are carried out in accordance with the CCPS Technology Master Plan, which is aligned to the division strategic plan, the state technology plan, and the Profile of a Virginia Graduate
• Provides support and training for teachers in best practices for instructional management in the learning management system
• Effectively coordinates, manages, and maintains data on school support services provided
• Stays current with best practices and trends in curriculum and instruction strategies in all content areas
• Stays current in instructional technology and applications
• Serves as a connector between schools and the Division of Teaching and Learning by maintaining communication-related to instruction in and across content areas and the technology practices and resources that enhance instruction
• Works collaboratively with content specialists to use existing data to identify areas of curricular deficiency and to determine effective strategies and instructional technologies for addressing these areas
• Regularly collaborates with the Division of Teaching and Learning and other Instructional Designers in planning and implementing district-wide professional learning training and events
• Regularly collaborates with other Instructional Designers in a professional learning network
• Performs other duties as assigned

Budgetary Responsibility:

This position has no budgetary responsibilities.

Report Preparation:

Maintains data related to school support services

Equipment Operation:

Personal computer, Chromebooks, projector, document camera, interactive display technologies, various digital media

Contacts:

Regular contact at all levels within the division, including teachers, support staff, building administrators, Curriculum Specialists, and Division of Teaching and Learning Leadership staff

Work Direction/Supervision:

This position does not supervise others, but may provide work direction in the context of instructional design guidance.

Decision Making:

Functions independently within specific programmatic guidelines.

Formal Policy-Setting Responsibilities:

This position has no formal policy-setting responsibilities.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands, hear, speak, and write. The employee is required to stand for extended periods of time, walk, sit, transport necessary equipment, and drive. The employee regularly drafts paper records and files, and must be able to manipulate or operate a computer and equipment controls, to include typing for an extended period of time. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and distance vision and depth perception.

Work Environment:

Work is performed in a public school. The noise level is typically quiet to moderate.

Qualifications:

• Considerable knowledge of the concepts, principles, and methodologies of instruction.
• Considerable knowledge of best curriculum practices and the application of instructional technology in the K-12 environment.
• Demonstrated ability to design and deliver instruction to students, teachers, administrators or other educational personnel.
• Considerable knowledge of PC hardware, software, web-based applications, and some knowledge of networking.
• Considerable knowledge and abilities in the G‑Suite applications.
• Considerable knowledge of best practices in online instructional management to include learning management systems.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.

Additional Job Requirements:

Applicant must hold a valid Virginia teaching license and have a minimum of two years of successful teaching experience. Preferred: A degree or endorsement in technology with prior experience delivering and integrating technology in instructional programs, including special populations; training teachers or other adults in the integration of technology Applicants considered for employment must successfully complete the following background investigations/tests: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal History Investigation State Police Criminal History Investigation Child Protective Services (CPS) Investigation Tuberculosis Screening/Test

Compensation:

$67,813.63 - $104,012.25

Hours Per Day 8 Days Per Year 237

Hours Per Day 8 Days Per Year 237

Benefits:

• Chesterfield County Public Schools offers a wide variety of benefits to employees.
• Benefit offerings may differ based upon full-time and part-time employee status.
• Chesterfield County Public Schools assures Equal Employment Opportunities for employees as required by Federal and State Orders and Laws.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential tasks.

As one of the largest and most innovative school divisions in the nation, Chesterfield County Public Schools is committed to creating a better tomorrow through authentic and captivating learning experiences. With work guided by the values of equity, integrity, teamwork and ingenuity, we believe that a better tomorrow is created one student at a time. Through our strategic plan, Imagine Tomorrow, our focus is to create an infinite learner mindset while encouraging students and staff to exemplify personal responsibility and supportive relationships. We think our schools are pretty amazing, but we aren’t the only ones. Our award-winning school division – which includes six National Blue Ribbon Schools, seven National Title I Distinguished Schools and six Middle Schools to Watch – is often cited as the reason people choose to live and work here. Educators from outside of our school division routinely visit our nationally-recognized schools to learn more about what we are doing, how we are doing it and why we are doing it. Our outstanding teachers, support staff members and leaders are top-notch educators whom others seek to emulate, and quite simply – we would like for you to consider joining us. You have a choice to make, and we would like for you to choose Chesterfield.