Real-Time Coaching and Pre-Service Teacher Education

Real-Time Coaching and Pre-Service Teacher Education
Author: Garth Stahl
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811063974

This book details the findings of a small-scale research study on the use of real-time coaching in pre-service teacher education, founded upon the nexus of teacher education, mentoring, immediate feedback, teacher effectiveness, technology-enhanced learning and innovative approaches to developing better teaching practices. The book includes a robust literature review summarizing the scholarship on coaching models used in teacher education. The authors explore how real-time coaching, as a specific approach, has the potential to address persistent problems in teacher education and early career teacher performance in the areas of teachers’ growth mindset, teacher resilience and disjuncture in applying theory to practice. The scholarship allows readers to gain a better understanding of the history of coaching in teacher training, and the capacity of real-time coaching, specifically, in pre-service teacher training told through the words of participants.

Standing in the Gap

Standing in the Gap
Author: Lisa Dabbs
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2015-08-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483391418

Supporting new teachers for success in the first years! This helpful guide will take new teachers on a journey of discovery. Learn to utilize key strategies to build confidence in the classroom and quickly get connected to resources and educators in the field who can stand in the gap to support them. You’ll learn to easily: Connect with online Communities of Practice Find and plan appropriate lessons Connect your students to classrooms around the world Collaborate with a face-to-face or virtual mentor Includes tips on building your online bio, mastering apps and hardware tools, vetting online resources, getting organized, using Twitter, Ning, Instagram, and beyond!

The eCoaching Continuum for Educators

The eCoaching Continuum for Educators
Author: Marcia Rock
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2019-09-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416627898

In this book, eCoaching pioneer Marcia Rock draws on best-practice research and decades of experience to offer a blueprint for professional development that maximizes teacher and student growth. The eCoaching Continuum for Educators provides teachers, administrators, and other school professionals a step-by-step guide to the four connected, coordinated components of technology-enabled professional development: (1) studying theory and practice to build knowledge of specific content and pedagogy; (2) observing theory and practice to aid in the transfer of new knowledge to classroom practice; (3) one-on-one coaching to give teachers the feedback they need to improve classroom practice; and (4) group coaching to build capacity for identifying and solving problems of professional practice. Rock offers a practical approach for putting professional development where it can do the most good—in the classroom. You'll learn Why technology is so well suited for authentic, job-embedded professional development How to cultivate a culture in which the eCoaching continuum can have the greatest impact Which technologies are the most useful for carrying out eCoaching in a variety of settings How to capture and evaluate the impact of eCoaching on teachers and students The eCoaching Continuum for Educators integrates best practice in coaching for professional development with a detailed account of how teachers and other school professionals can use today's technologies to improve their practice and ensure their students are fully engaged and learning.

Evidence of Practice

Evidence of Practice
Author: Adam Geller
Publisher: R3 Collaboratives
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0999378112

With the right plan, video observation and video coaching can be a high-impact lever for accelerating teacher growth. This playbook, from the makers of Edthena, draws from researcher and practitioner advice to offer twelve video-based strategies that readers can implement in their own context for facilitating professional development: • Classroom Tour • Self-interview • Example Analysis • Pre-teach • Self-Reflection • Partner-Supported Reflection • Skill Building Sequence • Video Learning Community • Virtual Walk-through • Video Rounds • Longer-Range Reflection • Iterative Investigation • Online Lesson Study Plus, read about putting video evidence at the center of professional learning, focusing techniques for analyzing video, and guidance about recording and sharing video, and a framework for facilitation of video-based discussion. Afterword by Jim Knight.

Innovating the TESOL Practicum in Teacher Education

Innovating the TESOL Practicum in Teacher Education
Author: Chang Pu
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-07-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000617874

Recognizing new opportunities and challenges brought about by technological and social change, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, this volume explores innovative design, implementation, and pedagogy for practica experiences in teacher education programs in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. By showcasing research and practice undertaken in a range of teacher education courses and programs, the volume offers evidence-based approaches to enhancing pre- and in-service teachers’ learning and cultural awareness. Chapters come together coherently to address issues and explore innovative structures revolving around high-quality TESOL practica. Particular attention is paid to emerging opportunities offered by virtual and simulated learning in online and in-person practica, as well as potential changes to best practice in community-based programs. Using a diverse set of lenses to examine the practical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of TESOL practica, this volume will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers with an interest in TESOL education, as well as in open and distance education.

Guided Reading

Guided Reading
Author: Irene C. Fountas
Publisher: F&p Professional Books and Mul
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780325086842

Much has been written on the topic of guided reading over the last twenty years, but no other leaders in literacy education have championed the topic with such depth and breadth as Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. In the highly anticipated second edition of Guided Reading, Fountas and Pinnell remind you of guided reading's critical value within a comprehensive literacy system, and the reflective, responsive teaching required to realize its full potential. Now with Guided Reading, Second Edition, (re)discover the essential elements of guided reading through: a wider and more comprehensive look at its place within a coherent literacy system a refined and deeper understanding of its complexity an examination of the steps in implementation-from observing and assessing literacy behaviors, to grouping in a thoughtful and dynamic way, to analyzing texts, to teaching the lesson the teaching for systems of strategic actions a rich text base that can support and extend student learning the re-emerging role of shared reading as a way to lead guided and independent reading forward the development of managed independent learning across the grades an in-depth exploration of responsive teaching the role of facilitative language in supporting change over time in students' processing systems the identification of high-priority shifts in learning to focus on at each text level the creation of a learning environment within which literacy and language can flourish. Through guided reading, students learn how to engage in every facet of the reading process and apply their reading power to all literacy contexts. Also check out our new on-demand mini-course: Introducing Texts Effectively in Guided Reading Lessons

Handbook of Research on Teacher Education

Handbook of Research on Teacher Education
Author: Myint Swe Khine
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2022-07-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811924007

This comprehensive book presents emergent findings and promising results in teacher education, curriculum, assessment, teaching and learning approaches, pedagogical innovations and practices, and professional development in educating the next generation of students. The volume reflects the current trends and highlights teacher education programs in all 14 MENA countries in one place. The chapters in this handbook discuss the challenges and the ways to improve teacher education by the educators in the Middle East region, including Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. It also provides an extensive and rich reference for future comparisons across the countries. The book contains chapters written by experienced international teacher educators who draw on their experience and expertise to perennial issues and formidable challenges in teacher preparation and meaningful school reforms. This volume is a valuable resource and essential companion for teacher educators, faculty members, staff developers, trainee teachers, undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, school leaders, policy-makers, and professional learning communities to refresh their knowledge and improve their understanding. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in evolving issues in teacher education in the Middle East region.

New Teachers Helping New Teachers

New Teachers Helping New Teachers
Author: Elizabeth A. McAllister
Publisher: Eric Clearinghouse on Reading
Total Pages: 119
Release: 1995
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781883790141

Taking as its guiding principle that through peer coaching new teachers can offer each other valuable feedback as they try out teaching techniques in the classroom, this book reports on a longitudinal study in peer coaching. The book aims to give teacher educators a new method for encouraging reflective thinking and professional growth in preservice teachers. The study reported on in the book was conducted over two-and-a-half years with 135 preservice teachers at Towson State University in Maryland. The book recounts scenarios of student experiences in which peer coaching was used, describes the students involved and the ways in which they were trained to coach one another, furnishes the results of the study, and offers ways in which teacher educators can use this information in their teaching of teachers. The chapters in the book were written in "heteroglossic" form--that is, the text reflects both the individual and collective perspectives of the authors. Chapters in the book are as follows: (1) Facilitating Reflective Thinking in Preservice Teacher Education; (2) Rethinking the Making of Teachers; (3) Peer Coaching Scenarios; (4) Training for Coaching; and (5) Reflections on Preservice Peer Coaching. The book concludes with a peer coaching workbook and a 51-item bibliography divided into sections on active learning, coaching, and reflection. (NKA)

The Relevant Educator

The Relevant Educator
Author: Tom Whitby
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483371735

Professional growth and social media savvy at your fingertips! This information-packed resource from digital experts Anderson and Whitby makes it easy to build a thriving professional network using social media. Easy-to-implement ideas, essential tools, and real-life vignettes help teachers learn to: Find and choose the best social media tools, products, and communities Start and grow a collaborative, high-quality PLN using Twitter, blogging, LinkedIn, and more Use social media to enhance 21st Century education Engage in authentic personal and professional learning Includes invaluable resources and an in-depth analysis of the social media landscape. Collaboration has never been easier with this must-have guide!

Professional Mentoring for Early Childhood and Primary School Practice

Professional Mentoring for Early Childhood and Primary School Practice
Author: Mary Moloney
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2023-08-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3031371860

Informed by current theory and practice, this book adapts a practical approach to mentoring that is grounded in real life experiences. Written in an accessible style, it explores the key concepts, characteristics and considerations of mentoring and mentoring relationships in early childhood and primary education contexts. With a focus upon mentoring as it applies to practicum during initial teacher education, as well as teacher induction, different models and approaches to mentoring, including dyads, triads, peer mentoring, critical friends and communities of practice (CoP) are introduced and evaluated. Engaging with theory, practical scenarios, key learning and reflection points throughout, the book invites the reader to reflect on the mentoring process from different perspectives to build the critical skills required by mentors and mentees alike, to create or enhance a culture of mentoring within their organisation. Written from the perspective of both mentors and mentees, the book is a valuable resource for those in the Further and Higher education sectors, as well as early childhood and school-based mentors. It is relevant to experienced mentors, who may wish to affirm their existing approach to mentoring, or want to explore, discover and embrace new and improved ways of working with a mentee. This book is also essential reading for anyone interested in mentoring, providing a wealth of information, insights and effective strategies for those who may be thinking of undertaking a mentoring role.