Intensive Work on Issues Facing Today's Literacy Coaches
In the 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 is offered twice in 2013:
| Spring 2013 | Summer 2013 |
- March 18–22, 2013 (five days)
- April 5–6, 2013 (two days)
- May 3–4, 2013 (two days)
- Webinars take place between face-to-face training
- Webinar Dates: 4/2/13*, 4/10/13, 4/24/13, 4/29/13, 5/8/13, 5/22/13, 5/28/13, and 6/5/13
- Webinar Times: 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
*This webinar date was changed to 4/2/2013. (Original date was 3/28/2013.)
| - August 20–23, 2013 (four days)
- October 16–18*, 2013 (three days)
- December 12–13*, 2013 (two days)
- Webinars take place between face-to-face training
- Online dates to be determined
*These dates were modified slightly on 3/19/2013 and are the correct dates.
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Learn to navigate the multiple roles of a literacy coach:
- 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
Registration and Cost
If you can't come to us, we'll go to you
If you can't come to Cambridge, Massachusetts, we offer The Effective Literacy Coach Training as
on-site professional development for a group of literacy coaches, instructional coaches, or lead teachers within your school district.