ECI 508 Teachers as Leaders
• new” understanding: importance of setting up a personal action plan for professional development & lifelong learning (identify ways to expand career and broaden knowledge base; set goals)
• Inquiry learning project:
Literacy Coaching: What Is It, and Is It a Role I Want to Pursue?
*The Nation’s Report Card: Reading 2009 demonstrates the need for literacy support at the middle and high school levels.
* 75% of 8th graders read at the “basic” level (p. 25), which, according to NAEP means, they have a “partial mastery of prerequisite knowledge and skills that are fundamental for proficient work at each grade level” (p. 5)
• Literacy coaches
*work at the middle and high school levels to help teachers incorporate reading and writing skills and strategies into their content area curriculum (math, science, social studies, and English/language arts)
*collaborate with teachers; provide ongoing professional development about skills and strategies to help with reading and writing
*research indicates fewer than 10% of teachers use a strategy learned after a professional development workshop (Buly et al., 2006, p. 27), but with in-class coaching & feedback they are more likely to take ownership
* “…a coach truly works with a teacher to shift understandings” (Buly et al., 2006, p. 24); an opportunity to provide other teachers with the “new” knowledge, strategies, and technologies that the NLGL program has given to me
• Inquiry learning project:
Literacy Coaching: What Is It, and Is It a Role I Want to Pursue?
*The Nation’s Report Card: Reading 2009 demonstrates the need for literacy support at the middle and high school levels.
* 75% of 8th graders read at the “basic” level (p. 25), which, according to NAEP means, they have a “partial mastery of prerequisite knowledge and skills that are fundamental for proficient work at each grade level” (p. 5)
• Literacy coaches
*work at the middle and high school levels to help teachers incorporate reading and writing skills and strategies into their content area curriculum (math, science, social studies, and English/language arts)
*collaborate with teachers; provide ongoing professional development about skills and strategies to help with reading and writing
*research indicates fewer than 10% of teachers use a strategy learned after a professional development workshop (Buly et al., 2006, p. 27), but with in-class coaching & feedback they are more likely to take ownership
* “…a coach truly works with a teacher to shift understandings” (Buly et al., 2006, p. 24); an opportunity to provide other teachers with the “new” knowledge, strategies, and technologies that the NLGL program has given to me
