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 Instructional Coaching: Helping Preschool Teachers Reach Their Full Potential

NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) is a professional organization which promotes excellence in early childhood education.  This article comes from the May 2011 issue of their Young Children professional journal.  It is accompanied by a study guide from NEXT for Young Children, which suggests ways to build on the content of the article.

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 Texas Reading First Advanced Coaching Institute

 2010 International Literacy Coaching Summit

2010 International Literacy Coaching Summit: Presenter Resources

The nation's only literacy coaching summit returned for its second year with the theme Response to Intervention? Response to Instruction? Educators and researchers from across the nation and several countries gathered on the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi campus for this conference, held in conjunction with the TAMUCC Reading Conference.

 

 

 Advanced Training for Reading First Coaches - A Presentation of the National Center for Reading First Technical Assistance

This training program was developed in response to coach and state requests for training to enhance the role of coaches.  It is organized in seven (7) sections as well as an Introduction.  Each section is then organized into four (4) components: Revisiting What You Know, Sharpening Your Skills, Tips and Cautions, and Next Steps.

The content is drawn from many sources, including first-hand experiences of coaches.  The format incorporates many practical scenarios to improve the skills of effective coaches.

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Introduction

Section 1: Managing School-wide Change / Handouts

Section 2: Enhancing Core and Intervention Instruction / Handouts

Section 3: Strengthening Communication / Handouts

Section 4: Facilitating Meetings / Handouts

Section 5: Maximizing Professional Development / Handouts

Section 6: Expanding and Refining the Coach's Role / Handouts

Section 7: Refining the Work / Handouts

 Reference Materials

Instructional Coaches Make Progress Through Partnerships, an article from the National Staff Development Council website, highlights the critical role partnership plays in successful coaching relationships and how these partnerships successfully develop.

Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the United States and Abroad was prepared to provide policymakers, researchers, and school leaders with a teacher-development research base that can lead to powerful professional learning, instructional improvement, and student learning.

 

Coaches in the High School Classroom: Studies in Implementing High School Reform

The Annenberg Institute has produced a set of portraits of high school literacy coaches working in two sites that are part of Carnegie Corporation's Schools for a New Society initiative. The 44-page publication, Coaches in the High School Classroom, features close-ups of six coaches in Boston and Houston. Intended to provide fuel for discussion, the portraits are interspersed with guiding questions and followed by several tools that can be used for further discussion, assessment, and analysis of coaching programs.

 

Coaching: A Strategy for Developing Instructional Capacity

Coaching is an increasingly popular strategy for districts seeking large-scale improvement in instruction.  To help guide district leaders in the practice, the Annenberg Institute and the Aspen Institute Program on Education copublished this paper by Barbara Neufeld and Dana Roper of Education Matters, Inc. The 48-page paper describes what coaching is, what coaches do, the kinds of supports that coaches need, and the potential benefits to both educators and students.

 

Professional Development Strategies that Improve Instruction: Professional Learning Communities/Coaching

Two key strategies are central to the Annenberg Institute's work on professional development systems: professional learning communities (small groups of teachers, administrators, community members, and others who work together to improve professional practice); and instructional coaching (school-based, educator-led professional learning for groups of teachers in specific content areas). This package includes two publications describing these strategies and what we have learned about using them effectively.

 
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