Coaching for Balance

by Burkins, Jan Miller

• ISBN13: 9780872076174
• ISBN10: 0872076172
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Intl Literacy Assn

Summary

Although literacy coaches now have many more resources to turn to than they did just a few years ago, Coaching for Balance: How to Meet the Challenges of Literacy Coaching moves beyond simply addressing literacy instruction to addressing the pedagogy of coaching. This practical resource highlights the competing demands that administrators, teachers, and school communities place on literacy coaches, and how coaches might discover balance in their roles.

Table of Contents

About the Author	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction The Heart of Coaching	p. 1
The Job: The Many Hats of a Literacy Coach
Checks and Balances: The Competing Demands of Literacy Coaching	p. 9
Creating Your Own Environment: The Coach as an Individual	p. 25
Taking Care of Yourself: Conserving Your Personal Resources	p. 48
The People: Building Relationships
The Organism and the Organization: Working With Individuals and Groups	p. 65
Taking Risks: The Necessary Discomforts of Change	p. 81
The Work: Stretching Ourselves
Teaching Toward Independence: Teachers as Professional Learners	p. 101
Developing Trust: The Language of Classroom Visitation	p. 119
Assessment Literacy: Learning to Make Sense of Data	p. 140
The Reasons: Coaching Matters
Educating Everyone: Looking at Difference Differently and at Ourselves Honestly	p. 159
The Emotions of Coaching: How Does It Feel to Be a Literacy Coach?	p. 182
Epilogue	p. 199
Appendix Reproducible Forms	p. 201
References	p. 205
Index	p. 213
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