The Effective Literacy Coach Training

Intensive Work on Issues Facing Today's Literacy Coaches 

In our nine-day Effective Literacy Coach Training, we will identify the critical attributes of a healthy, professional learning community for adult learners, and how to build it for your school in collaboration with school administrators.

The Effective Literacy Coach Training Begins This Summer

• August 20–23, 2013 (four days)
• October 16–18*, 2013 (three days)
• December 12–13*, 2013 (two days)
• Several two-hour webinars take place between face-to-face meetings 
• Online dates to be determined 

• Create an effective school-based literacy team
• Organize for quality coaching and professional development sessions including study groups and book clubs
• Help teachers: 
  • see the relationship between literacy theory and real-world practices
  • use professional resources to become independent practitioners who reflect on their practice
  • who are finding change difficult
  • use data to inform decision making while teaching
  • carefully observe what is actually happening during teaching
  • assume leadership roles in school 
   
• Organize for effective coaching – setting up coaching notebooks and monitoring teacher development
• Set up the elements of effective coaching sessions: pre-conference, classroom visit, post-conference/coaching session
• Make coaching generative to support teacher independence
• Use language that opens conversation and promotes the analysis of teaching and its effects on learning
• Use observational tools to sharpen the analysis of the teaching of reading, writing, and word study/phonics
• Select particular kinds of coaching to meet the needs of specific teachers intervention, collegial and cluster, as well as individual sessions
• Link coaching sessions to professional development to get a shift in teaching
• Evaluate your effectiveness as a literacy coach