Pod Coordinator
AOS Staffing, United States

The Pod Coordinator is a key member of an administrative team that works together with Classroom Executives to support the mission and values of the Center. The Pod Coordinator is responsible for oversight of the assigned pod, ensuring the quality and integrity of all aspects of the program in accordance with the rules and regulations of the State of Missouri and policies established by the Center. The Pod Coordinator ensures that classroom executives provide warm, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate daily care for each infant, toddler, and young child within the Center. The Pod Coordinator will observe, model, supervise, and mentor regularly, provide information to others, and implement and maintain services within established guidelines and standards related to the safety, health, and hygiene of the children in the Center.

Primary Interactions

• Provides daily supervision and instruction to assigned Classroom Executives and Assistance Classroom Executives
• Supports, promotes, and develops education staff in their skills and knowledge in early childhood.
• Coaches and assists classroom executives with Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies Gold, Conscious Discipline, ASQ assessments, lesson planning, classroom management, and identification of curriculum resources to improve instruction and help new teachers become successful.
• Supports the professional development of all education staff by delivering coaching, mentoring, training, and technical assistance.
• Builds relationships with education staff to establish an environment of trust and collaboration and provide emotional support through core value words: Trust, Respect, Accountability, Compassion, and Consistency
• Meet as a team regularly with other Pod Coordinators and admin to problem solve.
• Seek advice and assistance from other Pod Coordinators to design appropriate intervention strategies
• Interacts daily with the Program Director and other members of the Administrative team, training consultants, and others as required
• Assesses classroom executive's performance (staff evaluation) and recommends future assessments to the education specialist and program director.
• Coaches and mentors educators through conferences, demonstrations, observations, and providing personal assistance.

• Provides guidance and ideas regarding classroom/time management, discipline, scheduling, planning, arranging the classroom's physical environment, transitions, daily routines, etc.
• Models developmentally appropriate practices and activities in all aspects of the job
• Models and coaches preparing, set up, serve, and clean up of family-style meals and snacks.

Implementation

• Responsible for planning, organizing, and implementing of the program and daily activities for children consistent with the mission, Core Values as well as Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies, including setting individual and group goals on a regular basis
• Ensures and oversees a safe, healthy and clean classroom environment in accordance with centers policies, licensing and other regulations and best practices
• Supports educators in parent and family responsibilities, including: Written-Infant/Toddler and verbal- Preschool [TT1] daily reports, Written and verbal Incident reports, home visits and parent-teacher conferences - minimum of 4 annually per child
• Creates continuity for children and families by conducting daily check-ins and information sharing with Classroom Executive(s), supervisor(s) and others, as appropriate
• Assists educations with Creative Curriculum implementation in accordance with MOA guidelines, daily Conscious Discipline modeling and coaching, teaching and modeling appropriate professional behavior.
• Provides orientation for new classroom executives (e.g., responsibilities, schedules, policies regarding involvement with children, etc.) for the purpose of providing classroom executives with information regarding program objectives, identifying training needs, and reviewing functions of a mentor
• Submits individual professional goals or coaching plans to review with the program director, and assess teacher progress
• Ensures the completion of required monthly paperwork assigned in accordance with federal and local regulations, policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards (observations, HV, PTO, etc.)
• Participates and verifies timely completion of developmental and socio-emotional assessments and provides appropriate assessment reports and feedback.

Planning

• Identifies and requests needed professional development opportunities that address both current mentoring and coaching research and future instructional needs
• Schedules and documents supervision of the staff, pod meetings, and additiona

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