my blogs
MY COACHING MENU INFOGRAPHIC Instructional coaches are great thought partners who support teachers, parents, students and other staff and school community members in any possible way to impact growth in teaching and learning. As instructional coaches, we mostly work with adults and have to be familiar with adult learning principles and the ways adults learn and are motivated. We have to honor teachers experience and give them the autonomy to choose instructional areas that are aligned to their professional goals. As a coach, I have found that providing teachers with choice worked really well. One situation that comes to mind vividly was giving teachers choice in restructuring a QSSSA design that I initially created. The power of choice was extremely impactful and I got even more buy-in with this strategy. At the end of each year, I reflect on my coaching techniques and find ways to grow my capacity as a coach. To prepare for my coaching role in the 2020-2021 school year, I created the coaching menu in this section. I shared this coaching menu on Twitter and LinkedIn and it was well received. Today, someone from Twitter reached out asking me to share tips for starting a coaching menu, and her question inspired me to write this blog. I taught high school Math to English Language Learners in my last 4 years as a full-time teacher and it was by far one of the best teaching and learning experiences I had in my 24 years in education. During this time, I was also completing my Masters in Education at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and was fortunate to have had the opportunity to do courses that focused on literacy, especially Reading Across the Curriculum. Prior to pursuing this course, I incorporated literacy elements with my high school students when I taught Algebra 1, Algebra 2 and Geometry, but this course provided me with great additional ideas to implement with my students. It was a joy seeing students so engaged in learning and representing their learning. Below, you will find examples of the strategies I used with my ELL students; these literacy strategies do not only work for English Language Learners, but all learners.
|
Cherry-Anne GildharryOn this page, you will find blogs on educational connections and my life's experiences. Ideas, thoughts and views are my own and are not representative of my employers. References/sources used are public articles found on the internet to support my blogs. Archives
April 2024
Categories |