Practical Literacy Coaching: A Collection of Tools to Support Your Work

By Jan Burkins

Book Overview

Strengthen your effectiveness with proven tools developed by coaches who have "been there"

This rich compilation of ready-made tools will enhance your literacy coaching by building skills across a wide range of responsibilities such as communication, literacy research, and technology. In an engaging, no-nonsense style, veteran coach and literacy consultant Jan Miller Burkins describes how to use each tool, provides action steps with reflection questions, and explores important aspects of coaching, including:

Defining roles--what you are, what you are not Finding your "fit" in new coaching environments Using forms in ways that motivate and support teachers Assessing your impact based on a school′s or district′s mandate

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872074730
• ISBN13: 9780872074736
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.8"