High School Blended Learning and Technology Lead
2 weeks ago
SPARK Schools is a social impact disruptor and is leading change in the education space through its network of affordable private schools.
The SPARK Schools network provides transformational education innovation through Africa's first blended learning model, which elevates student achievement and provides the tools teachers need to serve their students effectively.
The blended learning model, which combines classroom teaching and online instruction, allows teachers to anticipate student needs and equips schools to provide personalized education at an affordable cost.
SPARK Schools is a high growth, mission and values-driven entrepreneurial organisation, operating 20 primary schools and 4 high schools and serving over 15,000 families in 2023.
Requirements:
Purpose of Role:
Reports To:
High School Curriculum and Assessment Manager
Responsibilities:
Design
- Research new and innovative curriculum practices.
- Participate in the design and implementation of systems to assess student achievement.
- Lead the refinement and articulation of longterm sustainability, scalability, and operating principles of the SPARK Schools blended learning models.
- Select and evaluate blended learning programs and ensure that the schools have researchbased programs that are likely to accelerate performance.
- Align the academic curriculum with government standards, SPARK's best practice, and international expectations and benchmarks.
- Actively seek innovative practices and new technologies to improve instructional systems and practices.
- Synthesize research around the effectiveness of blended learning models, internal best practices, and challenges to design and pilot a hybrid learning model that aligns with SPARK's instructional practices, beliefs and values, and delivers strong student achievement results.
- Spearhead future blended learning pilots to test and inform model for widescale implementation to provide a high quality, personalised education program for students.
- Develop content and assessments that meet local government standards, SPARK's best practice, and international expectations and benchmarks.
- Responsible for the design and procurement of Learning Lab and Flex space collateral and/or input to any changes or requirements
- Responsible for identifying quality content providers.
- Responsible for actively engaging with content providers and releases.
- Responsible for budget planning and supplier payments and/or input to any changes or requirements
Implementation
- Lead the implementation of blended learning models that supports the integration of technology using researchbased strategies.
- Provide regular input and updates to the School Achievement Manager's on scholar accessibility to online resources
- Collaborate with the leadership team on professional development of Blended Learning Facilitators; develop and lead professional development as appropriate.
- Support system integrations
- Maintain tickets and requests through help portals
- Integrate curricular support with strategies for student socialemotional development.
- Manual update of staff designation in Clever
- Manual Policy update to override SSO for new users
- Contract status verification for Online suspensions
- Chromebook Organisational Unit updates
- Responsible for deprovisioning of stolen Chromebook
- Generate and manage internal assessment schedules, logistics, and reporting.
- Training and Development
- Maintenance of the Learning Management System content, training and use cases.
- Train, coach, and support blended learning facilitator's, educators and instructional coaches responsible for blended learning instructional strategies.
- Train and orient SPARK staff members in curriculum and instructional best practice.
- Coordinate the SPARK preservice training and curriculum professional development with the Director of Leadership Development and the Director of School Design.
- Support and assist teachers to develop instructional strategies and intervention programs that elevate achievement among struggling students.
- Compliance
- POPIA representative and data custodian for Learning Model Team
- Clearly communicate networkwide and school data to school leaders, in order to ensure accurate interpretation of student progress.
- Develop, monitor, refine, and implement the curriculum and assessment model at SPARK Schools.
- Plan and support preservice and inservice professional development for school leaders and educators on curriculum, culture, and communitybuilding.
- Helps instructional coaches and educators to develop instructional strategies and intervention programmes
- Source and recommend for implementation appropriate curriculum resources
- Monitors, refines, and implements the curriculum and assessment mo
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