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Practical Literacy Coaching
A Collection of Tools to Support Your Work
- Jan Miller Burkins - Literacy and Coaching Consultant, University of Georgia, USA
June 2009 | 180 pages | Corwin
Based on her work as a literacy coach and an instructional coach, it became apparent to Jan Miller Burkins that parallels and overlaps exist in the work coaches do with teachers. Many coaches were inventing and reinventing the same tools. This repetition of effort led Burkins to compile this collection of tools and resources.
The diversity of literacy coaching demands that coaches must be competent across many levels of interaction with people and must have expertise in an array of areas from communication to technology to literacy research. This resource provides specific tools and resources that respond to those needs.
Foreword
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Three Metaphors for Literacy Coaching
1. Defining and Clarifying Your Role
2. Stepping Into the Work of Literacy Coaching
3. Stretching Yourself
4. Developing and Supporting Learning Communities
5. Coaching Individual Teachers
6. Documenting Your Work, Managing Your Time
References
Index
“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.”
Author, The Literacy Coach's Companion, Grades PreK–3