Professional Development for Literacy Coaches

Meeting the Challenges of Coaching: A Four-day Institute for Literacy Coaches 

The Institute focuses on an examination of the multiple roles of the coach in the professional learning community, effective coaching models, and the link between teaching, coaching, and professional development sessions.

Questions?

Please call 617.349.8693 or email litcol@lesley.edu.

 

Topics will include:

  • Building a professional learning community
  • Clarifying the roles of the coach: Differentiating between coaching and supervision
  • Organizing and preparing for effective coaching sessions
  • Helping teachers understand the reading and writing process
  • Using language that facilitates teacher inquiry
  • Communicating with principals and teachers
  • Observing change in teacher development
  • Analyzing student data and behaviors to inform instruction
  • Using The Continuum of Literacy Learning and The Fountas and Pinnell Prompting Guide to support teacher understanding

Dates and Time:

  • July 18–21, 2011
  • 8:30 am–3:30 pm (8:00 am on day 1 for registration)

Location:

Lesley University
University Hall
1815 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

Please take the elevator to the second floor and check in at the registration desk outside of the Amphitheatre (Room 2-150).

Speakers:

Irene Fountas

Irene FountasIrene is a Professor in the School of Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she directs research-based literacy projects. She has been a classroom teacher, language arts specialist, and consultant in school districts across the nation and abroad. Irene and co-author, Gay Su Pinnell, have published several books, including their latest publication, When Readers Struggle: Teaching That Works (Heinemann).

 

Mechelle Abney

Mechelle Abney

Mechelle Abney is a faculty member at the Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative where she works extensively with intermediate and middle school teachers. She has over 20 years of educational experience as a classroom teacher, Title 1 Coordinator, Reading Recovery teacher and literacy coach in the primary, intermediate and middle-school grades.

Jill Eurich

Jill Eurich

Jill Eurich is the Assistant Director of the Middle School Literacy Initiatives at the Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative. She has worked for Lesley University for the last ten years and prior to that was a teacher of the intermediate and middle school grades in Cambridge, MA.

 

 

Required Texts:

  • The Continuum of Literacy Learning PreK-8: Behaviors and Understandings to Notice, Teach and Support by Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell (Heinemann)
  • The Fountas and Pinnell Prompting Guide 1 by Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell (Heinemann)
  • Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency: Thinking, Talking and Writing about Reading K-8 by Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell (Heinemann)

You may purchase the books using your registration form or from www.heinemann.com. If you already have the books, please bring them with you to the Institute.

Cost:

  • Non-credit registration fee without the three required books: $595 (includes handouts)
  • Credit rate: $840 per credit plus $30 processing fee. Price does not include required books. Credit students must bring the required texts to the institute.

Non-credit Registration:

For more information, please call 617.349.8693 or email litcol@lesley.edu.

Credit Registration:

  • If you are a new student, submit a credit registration form to the Registrar. Download the registration form [pdf].
  • Write the course number, EEDUC 6163.30, on the form.
  • Indicate if you are taking the Institute for two or three credits.
  • Mail the form to the Lesley University Office of the Registrar, 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 or fax it to 617.349.8717.
  • You may also register in person at 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA (3rd Floor).
  • If you are a returning student, you may log into your LOIS account (www.lesley.edu/lois) to register.
  • Credit students must pay for the Institute via the Student Accounts Office (also located at 1815 Mass. Ave., 3rd Floor).
  • Returning students may pay via their LOIS account under the "pay my bill" link.
  • Call 617.349.8740 or email registrar@lesley.edu if you have questions about registering for this Institute. Call 617.349.8760 or email studentaccounts@lesley.edu if you have questions about paying for graduate credit.

 

Credit Assignment:

Individuals taking the institute for credit will need to complete an assignment that involves reading, writing, videotaping coaching sessions, and analyzing the videos. Assignments vary depending on the number of credits one is taking and whether or not the participant is a literacy coach. The assignment will be due in November.

 
updated 06/29/11 | 02:13 PM