Elevating Literacy Expertise Through Coaching
Examine a variety of practices and structures to shape your literacy coaching and deepen your knowledge of effective literacy teaching.
In this 8-week online course, you’ll explore a variety of ways to coach teachers and foster their independence, reflection and analysis of literacy teaching and learning.
- Literacy Coaches & Teacher Leaders
- Course Number: EEDUC 6404.80
- Fees are subject to change
This online course is for literacy coaches, teacher leaders, and administrators who want to understand the link between coaching and teacher professional growth. We’ll discuss how to use a variety of tools and other resources to help you improve literacy teaching and learning in your school. We’ll also evaluate different models of content-based coaching, including cluster coaching and intervention.
Course Outcomes
- Use professional resources and observational tools to sharpen the analysis of the teaching of reading and writing
- Design an effective coaching session with a teacher: pre-lesson conference, classroom visit, and post-conference/coaching session to support the teaching of reading and writing
- Select particular kinds of coaching to meet the needs of specific teachers including intervention, cluster coaching, as well as individual coaching sessions
- Employ generative coaching to support teacher independence
- Use language that opens conversation and promotes the analysis of teaching and its effects on learning
- Link coaching sessions to professional learning
Linda Murphy, Associate Director, Literacy Programs
Linda has worked in school districts in New York in a variety of roles and settings. Prior to her joining the center at Lesley University, Linda held positions as a principal of an intermediate school, a Director of English Language Arts, Social Studies and Reading, a district trainer for Literacy Collaborative Intermediate, a Reading Recovery Teacher Leader and a classroom teacher. Linda holds licenses in Elementary Education and School District Administration.
Required Texts
You are responsible for purchasing/having access to the following professional texts for this course:
- Fountas, I.C. and Pinnell, G.S. (2022). The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum, Second Edition: A Tool for Assessment, Planning, and Teaching, PreK-8.
- Fountas, I.C. and Pinnell, G.S. (2018). The Literacy Quick Guide. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
- Fountas, I.C. and Pinnell, G.S. (2017). Prompting Guide, Part 1, for Oral Reading and Early Heinemann.
- Fountas, I.C. and Pinnell, G.S. (2017). Prompting Guide, Part 2, for Comprehension: Thinking, Talking, and Writing. Heinemann.
This option must be taken for 3 graduate credits. Take the course individually or as a required course in our 12-credit Online Graduate Certificate in Literacy Coaching and Teacher Leadership.
Interested in professional learning at your school or district? Schedule a meeting with one of our faculty trainers.
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