Professional Practice And Improvement Specialist Vicenza

Professional Practice And Improvement Specialist
Vicenza
Veneto, Vicenza

Duties**:

- Provide opportunities to optimize curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices through professional networks.

- Promote standards-driven instruction, innovative practices and professional growth within professional learning communities.

- Implement and sustain a collaborative coaching approach for district and school leaders to become more reflective practitioners and support their roles as instructional leaders.

- Identify training and education gaps and provide guidance and direction for the development of intervention strategies and professional learning opportunities.

- Conduct face-to-face, blended, virtual professional development to build capacity of district staff, principals, and teacher leaders.

- Conduct program evaluations using formative and summative assessment tools to ensure quality and degree of implementation, inform continuous improvement efforts, and analyze professional learning needs.

- Conduct root cause analysis and identify discrepancies between goals and current status and develop solutions in order to stimulate achievement.

- Engage and support district and school leaders in collaborative learning communities to foster continuous learning, productive interaction, and support transfer of the learning to practice.

**Requirements**:

**Conditions of Employment**:

- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Requirement.

- Proof of U. S.

Citizenship required.

- Direct deposit of pay is required.

- Two-year trial period may be required.

- This position requires a Tier 3 (T3) investigation with Childcare Checks since its duties require interaction with children and youth under the age of eighteen (18) years of age.

- You may be required to sign a transportation agreement.

- You will be required to sign a mobility agreement, be available for worldwide placement, and be willing to rotate to any DoDEA location.

- Individuals hired from the Continental United States (CONUS) and their family members (who are US citizens) are required to obtain Official Passports prior to departure to the overseas area.

- Individuals assigned to Italy, England, or Korea, are required to obtain a visa to enter these countries.

- A secret security clearance is required.

**Qualifications**:

- **Current Competitive Service Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Civilian Employee**:

- **Current Excepted Service Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Employee**:

- **U. S. citizens**:

- In order to determine if you meet any of the eligibilities above, please review the required documents listed in the announcement questionnaire.

**Basic Requirements for Professional Practice and Improvement Specialist**:

**Education**:A master's degree (or higher degree) in the field of education is required.

The course work must have been completed at or accepted by a regionally accredited U. S. college or university.

**Specialized Experience**: At least 2 years of experience beyond the teaching level developing and designing professional learning (e. g.

Instructional Specialist/Designer) for PK-12 district or school leaders/administrators; OR demonstrated leader/administrator experience supervising PK-12 educators in professional growth and administering and supporting PK-12 instructional programs.

The specialized experience must have been gained in a PK-12 setting or PK-12 administrative/headquarters office.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

- Accountability

- Creativity and Innovation

- Education Consultation, Coaching and Collaboration

- Instructional Delivery and Learner Development

- Learning and Program Evaluation

- Oral Communication

**Education**:

**Foreign Degrees and Course Work from Non-accredited Institutions**.

Foreign Degrees and Course Work from Non-accredited Institutions.

Credits or degrees earned from a foreign college or university must be evaluated prior to acceptance.

Three evaluation procedures are acceptable:

a.

The work must be evaluated and interpreted by a current member of National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES).

This website provides a list of current organizations who can perform your evaluation.

You must select and work directly with one of these organizations.

b.

The foreign institution that awarded the degree is on a list endorsed by a regionally accredited university or on a list endorsed by a state department of education for the purpose of teacher certification in that state (this procedure will require an English translation of the transcript and a copy of the document awarding the degree, together with an authenticated list produced by an American university or a state department of education); and

c.

The work may be evaluated by the graduate division of a regionally accredited university and declared the equivalent of similar undergraduate or graduate work in a U. S. institution.

Graduates of