LITERACY COACHING: Challenges and Promising Practices
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Literacy Coaching
Michele
Literacy
Zwart
Coach
Brady Elementary School
Aurora East District 131
[email protected]
What
does a Literacy Coach DO all
day?
Challenges and Promising Practices
My favorite “go-to” websites
Job Description Highlights
Work
collaboratively with building
administrators and literacy leaders.
Manage all core reading, supplemental and
assessment materials.
Offer ongoing support, modeling, coaching,
co-teaching and training to teachers;
provide collegial feedback when necessary.
Work
with teachers and students to
ensure the pervasive use of
consistent instructional approaches
and methods to actively engage
students in the five essential
components of reading.
Collect, interpret and mange all
required assessments.
Work
with teachers to analyze data
for the purpose of informing
instruction and determining
appropriate interventions or using
additional diagnostic assessment for
“at risk” students.
Attend all necessary training
sessions described in the Reading
First Professional Development Plan.
Actively
participate in developing and
offering a variety of staff
development opportunities for
individual teachers, grade level teams
and small groups within the school.
Follow all other responsibilities
assigned by the building
administrator .
LITERACY COACHING:
Challenges and Promising
Practices
Roadblock 1:
Defining What Coaching Means
Issues
Differences within
Half-time
Reading First
Promising
a district
Practices
Administrator
Credibility
Support
Roadblock 2:
Getting Into Classrooms
Issues
Teacher
“I
Concerns
can’t..” “I don’t…”
Perceived
Promising
role as evaluator
Practices
Building Rapport
Getting in through
the back door
Roadblock 3:
How To Differentiate Coaching
Issue
Different
things
Promising
teachers need different
Practices
Understanding change
Consider teacher needs
and wants
CBAM
(Hord, 1987)
Concerns-Based Adophtion Model
LEVEL 0
AWARENESS
Teacher knows nothing about innovation. “What is it?”
LEVEL 1
INFORMATION
Teacher collects information about innovation. “How does it work?”
LEVEL 2
PERSONAL
Teacher wonders how innovation will affect her/him personally. “How does
this impact me?” “What’s my plan to do it?” “Will I have enough time and
energy to do it?”
LEVEL 3
MANAGEMENT
Teacher addresses practical issues related to the innovation. “How will I fit it
into my schedule?” “How will I manage the materials?” “How will I organize
and manage the classroom to implement the innovation?”
LEVEL 4
CONSEQUENCE
Teacher determines effect of innovation on her/his goals and on student achievement.
“Is it worth it?” “Is it working?”
LEVEL 5
COLLABORATION
Teacher elaborates on innovation, making modifications and sharing ideas with others.
“It’s working fine, but how do others do it?”
LEVEL 6
REFOCUSING
Teacher is satisfied with innovation and is interested in moving on to new problems,
challenges, and questions. “Is there anything else that’s better?”
Roadblock 4:
Managing/Prioritizing Time
Issues
Ebb and flow of coaching
Half-time
Teacher schedules
Promising
Practices
Document and analyze
Use research findings
Master schedule
time
Roadblock 5:
Coaches Need Support Too!
Issues
Not a teacher…not an administrator
One coach per building
Promising
Practices
Mentor for coaches
Find a support system
Resources
Special Thanks..
The “Literacy Coaching: Challenges and Promising Practices”
presentation was co-authored and previously presented with
Dr. L’Allier and Dr. Laurie Elish-Piper from Northern Illinois University.
It has been edited for the audience of today’s presentation.
The full length article can be found in the Winter 2008-2009 Illinois
Reading Council Journal.
Elish-Piper, L., L’Allier, S.K., & Zwart, M. (2009). Literacy coaching:
Challenges and promising practices for success. Illinois Reading
Council Journal (37), 10-21.
My Favorite Websites
Choice
Literacy
www.fountasandpinnellleveledbooks.com
http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/mywe
b3/index.htm
http://www.literacycoachingonline.org/
www.readinga-z.com
http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/homePage.d
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