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Practical Literacy Coaching - Book Cover Look Inside

Practical Literacy Coaching

A Collection of Tools to Support Your Work

Strengthen your effectiveness with proven tools developed by coaches who have "been there"!

This rich compilation of ready-made tools will enhance your literacy coaching by building skills across a wide range of responsibilities such as communication, literacy research, and technology. In an engaging, no-nonsense style, veteran coach and literacy consultant Jan Miller Burkins describes how to use each tool, provides action steps with reflection questions, and explores important aspects of coaching, including: 

  • Defining roles—what you are, what you are not 
  • Finding your "fit" in new coaching environments 
  • Using forms in ways that motivate and support teachers 
  • Assessing your impact based on a school's or district's mandate

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Practical Literacy Coaching - Book Cover Look Inside
Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12, Elementary, Secondary
  • ISBN: 9780872074736
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2009
  • Page Count: 180
  • Publication date: June 05, 2009

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Description

Strengthen your effectiveness with proven tools developed by coaches who have "been there"!

This rich compilation of ready-made tools will enhance your literacy coaching by building skills across a wide range of responsibilities such as communication, literacy research, and technology. In an engaging, no-nonsense style, veteran coach and literacy consultant Jan Miller Burkins describes how to use each tool, provides action steps with reflection questions, and explores important aspects of coaching, including:

  • Defining roles—what you are, what you are not
  • Finding your "fit" in new coaching environments
  • Using forms in ways that motivate and support teachers
  • Assessing your impact based on a school's or district's mandate

Key features

Limitless in their application, the resources in this book are organized as tools for:

  • Defining and clarifying your role
  • Taking care of yourself
  • Recording what you see and hear in classrooms
  • Supporting professional learning
  • Documenting your work
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Jan Miller Burkins
Jan Miller Burkins is currently completing her sixth year as a full-time coach at Chase Street Elementary School, Athens, Georgia. She has worked as a language arts consultant for a regional educational service agency, a district-level literacy coordinator, a reading specialist, and an elementary classroom teacher. Her work as a consultant has taken her into elementary, middle, and high schools where she has helped school leaders examine their reading instruction, modeled lessons, and facilitated professional learning.

Burkins is also a part-time assistant professor at the University of Georgia, where she teaches classes to students pursuing graduate degrees in literacy education. She has also developed a series of courses for educators interested in becoming literacy coaches. Burkins is the author of Coaching for Balance: Meeting the Challenges of Literacy Coaching.

In 1989, Burkins received her undergraduate degree in early childhood education from Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama, and in 1993 her master’s from the University of Alabama. She later earned her reading specialist certification and her doctorate from the University of Kansas in 1999. Her dissertation, which was a meta-analysis of the research on phonemic awareness, was the Dissertation of the Year for the University of Kansas School of Education and one of three finalists for the International Reading Association’s Dissertation of the Year.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

About the Author

Preface

Sharing Our Work

How This Book Came to Be

Suppositions

From Philosophy to Action

Conclusions: A Word About Imagination

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Three Metaphors for Literacy Coaching

Metaphor I: Coaching Pie

Metaphor II: Nesting Dolls

Metaphor III: Phases of the Moon

Closing Thoughts

1. Defining and Clarifying Your Role

Opening Thoughts: Finding Ourselves

Coaching Connection: Living Horizontal in a Vertical World

Related Research: Four Schools, Three Literacy Coaches, and 160 Teachers

Tools for Defining and Clarifying Your Role

A Coaching Story: Crossing Lines

Coaching Connection: Wet Cement in the Threshold

Taking Chapter 1 Personally: How Are You Defining and Clarifying Your Role?

2. Stepping Into the Work of Literacy Coaching

Opening Thoughts: Big Shoes

Coaching Connection: Sitting Big

Related Research: What Can a Coach Do for You?

Tools for Stepping Into the Work of Literacy Coaching

A Coaching Story: Quality Over Quantity

Coaching Connection: One Piece at a Time

Taking Chapter 2 Personally: How Are You Stepping Into Your Work as Literacy Coach?

3. Stretching Yourself

Opening Thoughts: Risky Business

Coaching Connection: Coaches Worth Their Salt

Related Research: Reflecting With Others

Tools for Stretching Yourself

A Coaching Story: Reading With a Different Lens

Coaching Connection: Yoga and Honoring Resistance

Taking Chapter 3 Personally: How Are You Stretching Yourself?

4. Developing and Supporting Learning Communities

Opening Thoughts: Smart Work

Coaching Connection: Red Grapes or Green Grapes

Related Research: Learning to Learn

Tools for Supporting and Developing Learning Communities

A Coaching Story: Modeling in Professional Learning

Coaching Connection: The Rubik's Cube

Taking Chapter 4 Personally: How Are You Developing and Supporting Learning Communities in Your School?

5. Coaching Individual Teachers

Opening Thoughts: Records on the Run

Coaching Connection: Thinking Outside the Mailbox

Related Research: Feedback and Situated Identities

Tools for Coaching Individual Teachers

A Coaching Story: Learning to Script Lessons

Coaching Connection: Just What I Needed

Taking Chapter 5 Personally: How Will You Work With Individual Teachers?

6. Documenting Your Work, Managing Your Time

Opening Thoughts: Matters of Time

Coaching Connection: Drumming Class

Related Key: Energy and Time

Tools for Documenting Your Work and Managing Your Time

Coaching Story: Play Fast

Coaching Connection: Machines That Make the Work Harder

Taking Chapter 6 Personally: How Do You Document Your Work and Manage Your Time?

References

Index

Reviews

Reviews

Quote by Maryann Mraz, Associate Professor, Reading and Elementary Education, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Author, The Literacy Coach's Companion, Grades PreK–3: “This engaging resource lends an authentic voice to the challenges that literacy coaches face in their daily work and offers clear solutions for meeting those challenges. An excellent array of practical tools supports literacy coaches as they strive to establish collegial partnerships, reflect on their coaching roles, and refine coaching practices to facilitate effective learning communities.”
“This engaging resource lends an authentic voice to the challenges that literacy coaches face in their daily work and offers clear solutions for meeting those challenges. An excellent array of practical tools supports literacy coaches as they strive to establish collegial partnerships, reflect on their coaching roles, and refine coaching practices to facilitate effective learning communities.”
Maryann Mraz, Associate Professor, Reading and Elementary Education, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Author, The Literacy Coach's Companion, Grades PreK–3

    Other Titles in: Coaching | Literacy, K-12

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