This indispensable guide offers current and prospective literacy coaches practical strategies for effectively meeting the day-to-day challenges of job-embedded professional development.
Cathy A. Toll, an educator with over 15 years of coaching experience, provides guidance on all aspects of literacy coaching, including:
• conferencing with individual teachers
• facilitating group meetings
• providing demonstration lessons
• providing services to the entire school
• providing services to students
Toll demonstrates what effective literacy coaching looks like through key questions, theoretical and practical rationales, copy-ready masters, and vignettes of real-life coaching conversations. Appendixes on minimizing the negative impact of mandated classroom observations and separating coaching from supervising, plus an annotated bibliography, make this the ideal desk reference for coaches, supervisors, trainers, and others supporting the work of literacy coaches.
225 pp. 2006. Grades Pre-K–12. ISBN 0-8141-2968-4.
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