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Regional Coaching Sessions November/December, 2010

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Welcome!

Curriculum and Learning Resources Policy Unit

Ministry of Education


AgendaIntroductions and Welcome

Minds On• Session goals• The role of the coach• Data Gathering• Provincial Coaches’ Support

Action!• The Coaching Framework

Consolidation• Board team discussions• Reflection• Feedback


– expand understanding of current research on coaching and adolescent literacy

– engage in a shared leadership approach to literacy improvement

– collaborate with adolescent literacy leaders and coaches

– establish literacy GAINS coaching networks for ongoing professional learning

Goals


Season Partners


What is a literacy coach?A literacy coach is a teacher who partners with other teachers to refine classroom practice for the purpose for improving literacy achievement.

This work is supported by coaches’ knowledge and skills to:• build and develop professional relationships• support adult learning and professional growth• connect classroom practice with improvement planning • lead instructional practice

The central goal of all literacy coaching programs is to improve student learning.


The Power of CoachingThe Power of CoachingJoyce & Showers


Only 5% of teachers apply what they learn in professional learning activities to their classroom practice.

But…when they are coached along with professional learning, the level of application increases to 90%.

Joyce & Showers


What are the qualities of an effective literacy coach?


Why Coaching?


Adolescent literacy is a shifting landscape where the heights get higher, the inclines steeper and the terrain rockier. Literacy demands change drastically…


…students are expected to learn new words, new facts, and new ideas from reading, as well as to interpret, critique, and summarize texts...


... The literate practices embedded in these tasks, combining literacy skills and content knowledge, are often invisible (or taken for granted) and yet require a high level of sophistication.

Time to Act, Carnegie Report, 2010


How do you think coaching supports the literacy needs of adolescent learners in Grades 7-12?


Numerous benefits have been attributed to the incorporation of literacy coaches in schools and classrooms. Perhaps the most commonly hailed benefit has been the opening of classroom doors to create more collaboration and a greater sense of community among teachers in a school.

What Works? Research into Practice, Research Monograph #6, The Effectiveness of Literacy Coaches,

Literacy Numeracy Secretariat, June 2007


What is the role of a Provincial Coach?

Individual Board Support• Meet with board teams/administrators/system coordinators/

SSLs/coaches• One on one + one on some board coaches• Working with coaches on how to effectively provide support.

Networks of Boards• Collect information about coaching/best practices in various boards• Connect one board with another board

Other Actions• Adobe Connect professsional learning sessions• Newsletter / Communication


Framework for Literacy Coaches


Please watch the following video clip.


In your board teams…

• Identify what is happening in your board?

• Identify areas to focus on in your board based on the framework?


Partnership, at its core, is a deep belief that we are no more important than those with whom we work, and that we should do everything we can to respect that equality. This approach is built around the core principles of equality, choice, voice, dialogue, reflection, praxis, and reciprocity.

Knight


How can you help teachers realize that you are not there to evaluate?


What is the Partnership Philosophy?

pages 40-51



1 Equality2 Choice3 Voice4 Dialogue5 Reflection6 Praxis7 Reciprocity

Become an expert in one of the following principles:



Think/Pair/ShareIs there a particular principle you see as being most important?

What principle(s), if any, would you add to this list? What principles, if any, would you remove from this list?


Coaching is about building relationships with teachers as much as it is about instruction. The heart of relationships is emotional connection.

Knight, 2007


What will developing a partnership relationship mean for the work you are doing with teachers?


Role Play

Teacher: I give up. I’ve tried everything to get my students interested in reading – special times, rewards, showing them my own love of reading – and nothing works. These kids just don’t want to read.

Coach: ????


Questions for Gathering Information

page 45


Questions for Gathering Information

Use the question stems to facilitate a conversation that will lead to a Plan for Action.


Teachers described how their coach empowers –giving them confidence to try new teaching practices.

Marsh et al., 2008


What coaches need to know

For each of the core capacities,

identify:

• what knowledge, skills, and attitudes do coaches need?

• how do we address the gaps?


Principal leadership was significantly associated with frequency with which teachers conferred with their coach.

Matsumura, 2009


How does a subject area determine how meaning is constructed?

1 English 5 Math

2 Science 6 Health & Physical Education

3 Geography 7 History

4 Visual Art 8 Drama


Subject-Specific Literacy

What does this mean for the coach working with teachers in different subject areas?


The extent to which coaches emphasized integrating reading instruction across content areas had a positive relationship with perceptions of influence.

Marsh et al., 2008


Professional LearningAdobe Connect

Beginning mid-February 2010

Check www.EduGAINS.ca


Consolidation

In your Board team, please consider:

• Questions, comments and needs identified earlier.

• What are your plans for coaching in your board?• When do you anticipate contacting the provincial

coaches?• How might you engage the provincial coach in

your board?


Reflecting on what you have learned today…


Exit Card

• How well did today’s session meet your needs?

• How well will the resources support your needs?

• Today I learned ….

• I want to know more about…


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