Supporting, Nurturing, Nudging…

1. Supporting, Nurturing, Nudging… Embracing the Role of a Reading Coach Lora Darden, Ph.D. darden.lw@gmail.com

2. Group Norms… • Take care of yourself • Enjoy the moment & stay present • Place your cell phone in sleep mode • Say what you’re thinking… gently • What’s said here, stays here • What’s learned here, leaves here

3. Interchangeable Vocabulary Collaborative Teachers

4. Interchangeable Vocabulary Coaches

5. Interchangeable Vocabulary Staff Developers

6. Interchangeable Vocabulary Change Agents

7. What we’ve discovered… You Wear Many Hats Staying Close to the Teacherby Jonathan G. Silin and Fran Schwartz(2003) – Teachers College Record

8. So… What does research tell us about effective professional development and coaching?

9. Coaching Models

10. Coaching Models

11. Coaching Models

12. Change Agents

13. Effective Change AgentsCollaborative School Communities that Support Teaching and Learningby Judith W. Irwin & William Farr (2004) – Reading & Writing Quarterly • Empower people to have a voice in decisions that affect them

14. Effective Change AgentsCollaborative School Communities that Support Teaching and Learningby Judith W. Irwin & William Farr (2004) – Reading & Writing Quarterly • Empower people to have a voice in decisions that affect them • Encourage supportive relationships – sharing

15. Effective Change AgentsCollaborative School Communities that Support Teaching and Learningby Judith W. Irwin & William Farr (2004) – Reading & Writing Quarterly • Celebrate diversity and honor autonomy • Different styles & preferences • Ultimately it’s the teacher’s classroom

16. Experiences? Questions? Wonderings?

17. Reflective Coaching • Supportive

18. Reflective Coaching vs. • Supportive Evaluatory

19. Reflective Coaching

20. Reflective Coaching • Classroomteacher driven • Student focused

21. Reflective Coaching

22. Reflective Coaching No “praise” language is involved…

23. Reflective Coaching

24. Reflective Coaching • Focuses on the number of opportunities students have to engage in something • Description of student behaviors

25. Reflective Coaching

26. Reflective Coaching • Reflection • The MAGIC happens here… • The GREATEST potential…

27. Reflective Coaching

28. Reflective Coaching • Explain the cycle before you engage…

29. Find a buddy… try it out

30. Focus on Students… To Gain Trust & Meet the Needs of the Teachers

31. Reflective Coaching Write out debriefing script in partners. Try out the debriefing process. Fish bowl for feedback.

32. Reflective Coaching

33. Pre-planning… Words to use • “Thank you for taking the time to meet.” • “What is the academic goal for the lesson/for your students?” • “What outcomes/student behaviors would you like for me to watch for?” • “Are there particular students you would like me to focus on?”

34. Reflective Coaching

35. Reflective Coaching

36. Reflection… hints • Words to use – Teacher Talk • “Thank you for inviting me to watch your students in action.” • “Tell me about the lesson.” • “What did you notice about your students?” • “What outcomes/student behaviors were you pleased with?” • “Was there anything that surprised you?” • “What surprised you about the students?”

37. Reflection… CAUTION • Remember to stick with the agree-upon “Look For” items… picking up on other themes that were not an agreed upon part of coaching is dangerous ground

38. Reflective Coaching

39. The power of “Shhhhhh…”

40. Javier • English Language Learner • Goal: Creating greater independence in the classroom • Improve his ability to problem solve in text

41. Fish Bowl

42. Experiences? Questions? Wonderings?

43. Collaboration & Conflict… Strange, but necessary, bedfellows

44. Conflict? What do you mean “conflict?”

45. Conflict Amid Community • Achinstein, Betty • Teachers College Record • April 2002

46. Transparency: You need it!

47. The Conduit – Clandinin & Connelly (1995)

48. Theoretical Framework

49. Clandinin & Connelly (1995)

50. The Loner