I
have a thing for notebooks. And colorful markers. And sticky notes. I use them
in all aspects of my literacy teaching and coaching. During coaching conversations, I often
find myself providing on-the-spot demonstrations with these tools. I might
engage teachers in a brief lesson on phonemic awareness and ask them to sort
sounds. I might walk teachers through word building activities so they
experience a new way of engaging students. I might introduce books to teachers
to model how they might do the same for their students. I might even create
game boards on sticky notes as visuals for teachers to support instructional
planning. These demonstrations and notes act as instant and tangible tools to
further teacher learning.
Over
the years, I’ve compiled these artifacts to create coaching toolkits for the
teachers I work with. My toolkit for ‘word work’ might include a picture of an
anchor chart created with students, a list of words appropriate to the
alphabetic feature students are working on, a game template that can be used
for further practice and a list of helpful reminders for the teacher.
Essentially, a coaching toolkit provides you with what you need to support
teacher learning and application to the classroom.
Here is a sneak peek at a page! |
I hope this resource helps streamline your planning
and bring a bit of joy to the process. I encourage you to create your own
coaching toolkit and borrow these pages for inspiration. I’ll continue to
update this digital version as my actual toolkit grows and have created a
Remind list for those that would like notifications each time it is updated. I
hope this helps you plan for professional learning and offers a bit of coaching
inspiration as well! I also hope that you will share your successful pages with
me as well. We are in this together!
Can you please email me the link to your Google Slides of your toolkit? The link above does not work. AlexandraAHibler@katyisd.org
ReplyDeleteThank you!!
Hi Alex! I shifted all of the digital to this blog. They are the images you see at the top of each post. So, you now have access to them all, along with the blog posts!
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