Coaching Innovations (eBook)

Providing Instructional Support Anywhere, Anytime

Debbie Dailey, Patricia Kohler-Evans (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
125 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-3299-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book offers innovative methods to improve teacher education, exploring options in coaching of interns completed through both traditional face-to-face and virtual formats and discusses the benefit of using coaching, shifting the focus of work with teachers from evaluation to increased support in the classroom.

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This book offers alternative and innovative methods to improve preservice and inservice teacher education. The book explores options in preservice education for supervisor coaching of interns completed through both traditional face-to-face and virtual formats. Additionally, professional development strategies for inservice teachers using face-to-face and virtual coaching are discussed with the goal of improving teachers' classroom content and pedagogy, enhancing teachers' ability to engage diverse student populations, and supporting teachers' in innovative classroom technology applications.The book discusses the benefit of using coaching with both preservice and inservice teachers thus shifting the focus of work with teachers from evaluation to increased support in the classroom. Notably, the book explores an innovative model for this work using virtual coaching to provide teacher candidates and practicing teachers much-needed support embedded within their unique classroom context. This model uses Bluetooth Bug-in-the Ear (BIE) devices with Skype voice over-IP software to deliver virtual coaching. Finally, this book encourages readers to examine coaching relationships and to consider how we as educators engage in coaching practices with our colleagues and our students.

Autor

Debbie Dailey, Ed.D., is an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Central Arkansas where she is the Coordinator for the Gifted and Talented Program and director of a summer camp for talented youth, STEMulate Engineering Academy. Debbie enjoys working with teachers and teacher candidates through virtual and face-to-face formats. Patty Kohler Evans is a Professor in the Elementary, Literacy, and Special Education Program and Director of the UCA Mashburn Center for Learning at the University of Central Arkansas. Patty spends much of her time providing professional development in methodologies designed to improve the academic and non-cognitive skills of students at risk for failure.

Inhalt

Section 1: Instructional Coaching as an Educational PracticeChapter 2: Coaching for Affective Development—Candice Dowd Barnes, Ed.D.Section 2: Coaching Teacher Candidates Chapter 4: A Triad of Instructional Coaching: Changing Classroom Practices—Michelle Buchanan, NBCTSection 3: Coaching Practicing TeachersChapter 7: Coaching to Improve Teachers’ Instructional Practices—Debbie Dailey, Ed.D.Chapter 9: Embedded Professional Development: Virtually Coaching Classroom Teachers—Nykela Jackson, Ph.D.Conclusion—Patty Kohler-Evans, Ed.D. and Debbie Dailey, Ed.D.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 12 Illustrations including: - 8 Black & White Illustrations; - 4 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-3299-0 / 1475832990
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-3299-0 / 9781475832990