The Effective Literacy Coach

New Blended Format for 2011-2012!

Developed and offered by Irene Fountas, Jill Eurich and Diane Powell

This blended professional development is designed to help educators analyze the multiple roles of the literacy coach as well as the overall importance of the literacy coach in a school.

Join us for intensive work on issues facing today’s literacy coaches. You will learn how to successfully navigate the multiple roles of a literacy coach:

• Identify the critical attributes of a healthy, professional learning community for adult learners and how to build  it for your school
• Work in partnership with school administrators
• Create an effective school-based literacy team
• Organize for quality coaching and professional development sessions including study groups, book clubs, etc.
• Help teachers:
  • see the relationship between literacy theory and real-world practices
  • use professional resources to become independent practitioners who reflect on their practice
  • who are finding change difficult
  •  use data to inform decision making while teaching
  • carefully observe what’s actually happening during teaching
  • assume leadership roles in school
• Organize for effective coaching: setting up coaching notebooks and monitoring teacher development
• Set up the elements of an effective coaching session: pre-conference, classroom visit, post-conference/coaching session
• Make coaching generative to support teacher independence
• Use language that opens conversation and promotes the analysis of teaching and its effects on learning
• Use observational tools to sharpen the analysis of the teaching of reading, writing, and word study/phonics
• Select particular kinds of coaching to meet the needs of specific teachers: intervention, collegial and cluster, as well as individual sessions
• Link coaching sessions to professional development to get a shift in teaching
• Evaluate your effectiveness as a literacy coach

Registering for the Effective Literacy Coach

Meeting Dates:

Summer 2012

• August 13 - August 17, 2012
• 15 hours online professional development (dispersed)
• September 28-29, 2012 (Fri. & Sat.)
• 15 hours online professional development (dispersed)
• November 16-17, 2012 (Fri. & Sat.)

Download the registration form [PDF]

Download the brochure [PDF]

Cost:

$2,950.00 (includes professional books and materials)
There is also an option to earn 3, 6, or 9 graduate level credits with this offering. Please note there is an additional fee for the 6 and 9 credit options.

Contact Information:

Alison Buraczenski
617.349.8693
aburacze@lesley.edu