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How to Coach Teachers Who Don't Think Like You

Using Literacy Strategies to Coach Across Content Areas

Concrete guidelines for novice and experienced coaches!

This how-to resource covers the process and content of coaching and describes a unique approach that encourages teachers to write and reflect upon their practices. Using literacy techniques, practitioners can coach across content areas while honoring teachers' distinctive learning styles. With a format that gives readers the flexibility to choose sections best suited to particular coaching situations, the book includes:

  • Specific, field-tested practices to support personal learning differences
  • Strategies for modifying classroom practice and improving student achievement
  • Coaching models for individual teachers and teams of teachers
  • Options for coordinating coaching activities with teachers' schedules

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412949101
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2007
  • Page Count: 232
  • Publication date: November 19, 2007
Price: $42.95
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Description

"Finally, a book that I can use: a hands-on, foot-to-the-pedal kind of reading experience. Of all the books on educational coaching available, this one answers my actual day-to-day questions. You can tell Bonnie Davis has been there. An invaluable resource!"
—Mary Kim Schreck, Author, The Red Desk

Concrete guidelines for novice and experienced coaches!

This comprehensive guide encompasses a multilayered model that provides a rich experience for both coach and trainee. How to Coach Teachers Who Don't Think Like You covers the process and content of coaching and describes a unique approach that encourages teachers to write and reflect upon their practices. Coaches can use literacy strategies to train across content areas and learn how to individualize their approach to honor teachers' distinctive learning styles. The author presents samples of teacher writing and student work generated from coaching and offers narratives from practicing coaches across the country in school-based, district, and independent settings to illustrate the real world of coaching.

With a format that gives readers the flexibility to choose sections best suited to particular coaching situations, the book includes:

  • Specific, field-tested practices to support personal learning differences
  • Strategies for modifying classroom practice and improving student achievement
  • Coaching models for individual teachers and teams of teachers
  • Options for coordinating coaching activities with teachers' schedules

Whether you are just beginning a coaching career or have several years of experience, this book offers suggestions and avenues for exploration, inspiration, and application.

Author(s)

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Bonnie M. Davis
Consulting Description

Bonnie M. Davis, PhD, is a veteran teacher of more than forty years who is passionate about education. She taught in middle schools, high schools, universities, homeless shelters, and a men’s prison. She holds a doctorate in English from St. Louis University and is the recipient of numerous awards, including Teacher of the Year in two public school districts, the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Anti-Defamation League’s World of Difference Community Service Award. She has presented at numerous national conferences and currently works in school districts across the country.

Dr. Davis’ work centers on examining what “we don’t know we don’t know” about ourselves in order to more effectively teach students who don’t look like us. Moving from self reflection to action, her books offer educators culturally responsive, standards-based instructional strategies that bridge culture, language, race, and ethnicity.

Dr. Davis’s publications include the How to Teach Students Who Don’t Look Like You: Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies(2012);How to Coach Teachers Who Don’t Think Like You: Using Literacy Strategies to Coach Across Content Areas (2007); The Biracial and Multiracial Student Experience: A Journey to Racial Literacy(2009); and Creating Culturally Considerate Schools: Educating Without Bias (2012) with coauthor Kim L. Anderson. She is currently working on the Equity 101 Series with Curtin Linton, Executive Vice President of School Improvement Network.

Table of Contents

Introduction: How to Read This Book

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Moving From Teaching Students to Coaching Teachers

2. Organizing to Save Stress, Time, and Mistakes: Your Personal Tool Kit

3. Coaching Teachers Who Don't Think Like You

4. Coaching in a Variety of Settings: Experienced Coaches Share Their Success Stories

5. Scheduling Time for Coaching

6. Analyzing Coaching Scenarios

7. Using Classroom Demonstrations and Professional Development Workshops as Coaching Tools

8. Using Literacy Strategies Across Content Areas to Improve Student Achievement

9. Coaching Teams of Teachers to Improve Instruction

10. Coaching Teachers to Write and Reflect Upon Their Instructional Practices

11. Coaching Teachers as Writers: The Writing Workshop Model

Final Words

Appendices

Bibliography and Recommended Web Sites

Index

Reviews

Quote by Mary Kim Schreck, Educational Consultant: "Finally, a book that I can use: a hands-on, foot-to-the-pedal kind of reading experience. Of all the books on educational coaching available, this one answers my actual day-to-day questions. You can tell Bonnie Davis has been there. An invaluable resource!"
"Finally, a book that I can use: a hands-on, foot-to-the-pedal kind of reading experience. Of all the books on educational coaching available, this one answers my actual day-to-day questions. You can tell Bonnie Davis has been there. An invaluable resource!"
Mary Kim Schreck, Educational Consultant
Quote by Curtis Linton, Co-owner, School Improvement Network, Coauthor, Courageous Conversations About Race: "There is a knowing-doing gap in education today. The knowledge of how to teach successfully with all students is out there, but little of it is actually applied in the classroom. To close this, schools must rely upon coaches who help individual teachers at the classroom level discover how to succeed with every student. Bonnie Davis's book explicitly shows new and experienced coaches alike how they can successfully work with any teacher to improve classroom instruction. This book is practical to the core! Rather than straining the practical out of the theoretical, Davis provides coaches with all they need to know to successfully connect with every teacher they work with. Weaving together actual coaching experiences, the theory behind the practice, guidelines, methodology, and guided reflection for the coach, Davis has produced a remarkable tool that no coach should go without!"
"There is a knowing-doing gap in education today. The knowledge of how to teach successfully with all students is out there, but little of it is actually applied in the classroom. To close this, schools must rely upon coaches who help individual teachers at the classroom level discover how to succeed with every student. Bonnie Davis's book explicitly shows new and experienced coaches alike how they can successfully work with any teacher to improve classroom instruction. This book is practical to the core! Rather than straining the practical out of the theoretical, Davis provides coaches with all they need to know to successfully connect with every teacher they work with. Weaving together actual coaching experiences, the theory behind the practice, guidelines, methodology, and guided reflection for the coach, Davis has produced a remarkable tool that no coach should go without!"
Curtis Linton, Co-owner, School Improvement Network
Coauthor, Courageous Conversations About Race
Quote by The Bookwatch, March 2008, Midwest Book Review: "Teachers and college-level education courses will find an excellent, refreshing survey of coaching techniques. An essential guide to growth and understanding and flexibility that builds applied techniques for the real-world classroom."
"Teachers and college-level education courses will find an excellent, refreshing survey of coaching techniques. An essential guide to growth and understanding and flexibility that builds applied techniques for the real-world classroom."
The Bookwatch, March 2008
Midwest Book Review

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Price: $42.95
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Review copies may be requested by individuals planning to purchase 10 or more copies for a team or considering a book for adoption in a higher ed course. To request a review copy, contact sales@corwin.com.