Short description:

This how-to resource encourages teachers to write and reflect upon their practices in a unique approach to coaching that bridges content areas and honors distinctive learning styles.

Long description:

"Finally, a book that I can use: a hands-on, foot-to-the-pedal kind of reading experience. Of all the books on educational coaching available, this one answers my actual day-to-day questions. You can tell Bonnie Davis has been there. An invaluable resource!"
?Mary Kim Schreck, Author, The Red Desk

Concrete guidelines for novice and experienced coaches!

This comprehensive guide encompasses a multilayered model that provides a rich experience for both coach and trainee. How to Coach Teachers Who Don't Think Like You covers the process and content of coaching and describes a unique approach that encourages teachers to write and reflect upon their practices. Coaches can use literacy strategies to train across content areas and learn how to individualize their approach to honor teachers' distinctive learning styles. The author presents samples of teacher writing and student work generated from coaching and offers narratives from practicing coaches across the country in school-based, district, and independent settings to illustrate the real world of coaching.

With a format that gives readers the flexibility to choose sections best suited to particular coaching situations, the book includes:

• Specific, field-tested practices to support personal learning differences
• Strategies for modifying classroom practice and improving student achievement
• Coaching models for individual teachers and teams of teachers
• Options for coordinating coaching activities with teachers' schedules

Whether you are just beginning a coaching career or have several years of experience, this book offers suggestions and avenues for exploration, inspiration, and application.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: How to Read This Book
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Moving From Teaching Students to Coaching Teachers
2. Organizing to Save Stress, Time, and Mistakes: Your Personal Tool Kit
3. Coaching Teachers Who Don't Think Like You
4. Coaching in a Variety of Settings: Experienced Coaches Share Their Success Stories
5. Scheduling Time for Coaching
6. Analyzing Coaching Scenarios
7. Using Classroom Demonstrations and Professional Development Workshops as Coaching Tools
8. Using Literacy Strategies Across Content Areas to Improve Student Achievement
9. Coaching Teams of Teachers to Improve Instruction
10. Coaching Teachers to Write and Reflect Upon Their Instructional Practices
11. Coaching Teachers as Writers: The Writing Workshop Model
Final Words
Appendices
Bibliography and Recommended Web Sites
Index