WELCOME!

Welcome! This week I invite you to try-on the role of a literacy coach using all that we explored this semester. This week I am asking you to look at teaching and literacy together and analyze them as if you were a literacy coach. As teachers and literacy coach experts we wear many hats. The hats that I am inviting you to try-on are: 1)Teacher as evaluation experts, detecting patterns in learning. 2) Teacher as teaching experts and 3) Evaluation that serves instruction and empowers the learner. The first portion of the semester we looked at multiple assessment tools (interview, surveys, writing, a Developmental Continuum and miscue analysis). We then transitioned to using the information we learned from our multiple data sources to determine the appropriate strategies needed to empower learning. This week I asked you to read a chapter from Beers book and create a summary/chart to share with your peers. I have also asked you to investigate different strategies that you could use to move your case study child forward using the Phinney/Ward book (3-ring binder). This is all ways to link assessment to practice. We will continue to link assessment with instruction, but this week it will be from the point of view of a literacy coach. Below you will find a video (Katie Bannon's Lesson) to practice critically analyzing teaching and learning. Next, you will find a video power point from me. Here I explore the characteristics of effective literacy coaching. Finally, I ask you to view a video of a teacher teaching a mini-lesson on comprehension. While viewing this video I am asking you to put on your literacy coach hat and provide some feedback/coaching to this teacher. If you have any questions, please just let me know.