Moving into a coaching role as a teacher can be daunting for anyone. You spent years in the classroom perfecting your craft and all of a sudden you are in a new role and feel like a first year teacher all over again. But, you don’t have to. This post serves as a guide for…
The authors of The Coach Approach provide insight into their favorite technology tools for instructional coaches and best practices for school coaching.
Now that we’ve prepared ourselves with research and gathered materials, it’s time for that 1ST MEETING! But let’s be real, whether this is your first year, or your tenth year as a coach, getting the “teacher buy in” can be tricky. So, after trying to decide HOW I could get the trust of my teachers, and begin to build that relationship, I came up with this ~ Cupcakes with the Coach!
Need some morale-boosting activities for the start of the school year? Check out these five activities for back-to-school time!
If more schools took the time for collaborative planning rather than top-down PD, we'd be in a better place.
If you've agreed to mentor a first year teacher, you're probably wondering what the role and responsibilities of a mentor teacher are. Let's dig in!
Simple and Straight-forward Tools for Teachers, Coaches, and Leaders.
Earlier this week, I broke out the cool new pens I got for Christmas and got to work on putting together my coaching cycle schedule for this next quarter. Creating new schedules throughout the year is a cool opportunity for us coaches. It’s kind of like having a mini beginning-of-school-year kick off more than just […]
It's time for some truth telling.
Moving into a coaching role as a teacher can be daunting for anyone. You spent years in the classroom perfecting your craft and all of a sudden you are in a new role and feel like a first year teacher all over again. But, you don’t have to. This post serves as a guide for…
I have been perusing Pinterest these past few weeks in search of not only some quality instructional coaching tools, but also some boards created by fellow instructional coaches that I can continue to peruse and snag ideas from throughout the school year. I was excited and impressed by the amount of resources already out there to share and thought that they may be of use to some of you as well. The following are ten Pinterest boards chalked full of resources for instructional coaches that I would encourage you to follow: 1. Krista Happ (that's me ;)): Instructional Coaching Ideas (I have created this to be a collaborative board. So if you are interested in pinning your ideas and finds to it as well, feel free to follow the directions on the board and/or let me know in the comments below and I would be happy to add you. The more the merrier!) 2. Kristin Houser: Instructional Coaching 3. Jana Wilson: Instructional Coaching 4. Rachel Kjonass: Instructional Coach 5. Wendy Olson: Instructional Coach 6. Miss Shipp: Coaching 7. Aarolyn Wright: iCoach 8. Janet Pyland: Instructional Coach 9. Raquel Sterczek: PD 10. Paula Pippen: Instructional Coaching If you have a board geared toward coaching or teacher leadership that isn't on this list, I would love to hear about it and follow along. Feel free to leave your link in the comments so that other resource seekers can as well!
Teachers have lots to do and not a lot of time to do it. Here are our 3 tips for increasing teacher productivity and managing your workload.
I've been talking about the hidden curriculum (at least I was before I got distracted) and by now I've talked about how important it is in so many areas to explicitly teach the hidden curriculum. I've talked about how we can teach each item one-by-one, but this may not be the most efficient method for instruction. It means you have to anticipate every item and teach it. It also makes it difficult to teach those rules that are changeable depending on the situation and circumstance. So today I want to share a way of teaching students to classify events or rules to help them understand and continue to learn on their own.
Co-teachers who take risks together, grow together.
Having a mentor teacher is so impactful on the sucess of a first-year teacher. But what exactly is a mentor teacher? Let's dig in to what teacher mentoring is and is not.
We had another class Monday night with our new dual/ELL staff members, and this time we focused on differentiation and what that may look like across the subject areas. As we have done in the past, we had the teachers participate in a gallery walk and thus rotate around with their groups to add to a series of posters focused on this topic of differentiation. Yet again, our wonderful staff did not disappoint and came up with a wide assortment of ideas as to how instruction can be differentiated for our students! I typed up their ideas on a nice one page spread for them, and thought you all may find it useful as well! Click on it to grab a copy for yourself or a friend. Graphics/Fonts: Scrappin' Doodles, Rowdy Fonts, My Cute Graphics Also, (as if you haven't already heard ;)), I wanted to let you all in on the big secret. TpT will be hosting a "3 Million Teachers Strong" sale February 27-28th. In using promo code TPT3, you can get up to 28% off at my store along with so many more! How exciting is it to see this community of teachers growing and working together :)!
This interactive tool is worth the subscription.
Here are 10 co-teaching tips for classroom teachers, intervention specialists, and anyone in an inclusion-type educational setting at school.
Discover research-based instructional methods teachers, coaches, and administrators can use to enhance their everyday practices.
Data... the admin's favorite word, amiright? It's all about the data these days, and ya better be tracking it! As part of our new teacher evaluation system, showing student growth is a huge component. To help keep track of pre- and post-assessment data, I created this freebie set of data tracking sheets. The set includes forms for the classroom and for individual students. These can be used for a variety of purposes... PLCs on data, meetings with administration about student growth, use in data binders or during parent teacher conferences...so many options! Click the pic to check 'em out in my TpT store! Data Tracking Sheets And can we talk about those Post-Its? I found that huge set marked down at Office Depot for 9 bucks! Had been $20. Best. Day. Ever.
Curriculum mapping is an essential skill for educators. Curriculum Mapping ensures a teacher teaches all the standards for the grade level by mapping out what…
Three AI teacher assistants, a curated collection of math activities, a website-building curriculum, a site for helping students change the world, and more.
Help your students to finally grasp what it means to peel back the layers of challenging poetry analysis with Poetry Autopsies! In this Poetry Autopsy collaborative analysis project, students work together to first paraphrase Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem "Annabel Lee" on the surface level of a giant poster. Then, students literally peel back the layers of their collaborative poster answering higher-level analysis questions. This project is engaging, standards-based, and helps prepare students to answer questions they might encounter on high-stakes tests. Keep things simple with the engaging tools provided or add to the autopsy excitement by providing your students with face masks, surgical gloves, and blue tablecloths from the Dollar Store! This will be a poetry activity your kids will never forget! This lesson will take approximately two 40-60 minute class periods, depending on the skill level of your students. Included in this product: A two layer collaborative poetry analysis poster that can be printed at school on regular computer paper! A full answer key. A 5 page student packet with a copy of the poem, poetic terms reference sheet, and complete directions for the autopsy. Individual student reflection to hold each student accountable and to take the guess work out of grading a group project. Teacher instructions. A rubric for easy grading. Check out more engaging poetry activities from Read it. Write it. Learn it. Poet vs. Poet March Madness Poetry Task Cards to use with any poem! Poetry Escape Room
What questions should you ask before co-teaching with content teachers? Ones that inform collaborative teaching and bring language into focus.
As an instructional coach, there are certain items that can make supporting teachers easier. Each of the items shared here are highly recommended by myself as a teacher leader working in multiple buildings across a large district. Grab a binder and fill it with essentials like your standards, pacing guide, and teacher performance rubrics. Below…
To do the work of a teacher and stick with it long enough to get good at it, you need a level of emotional resilience most other jobs will never require.
Happy teachers mean happy students. Here is a list of ways to build morale, support teacher wellbeing and have fun as a teaching team at school.
Track assessment information in Google Sheets with these free student data tracker spreadsheets. Each also includes a helpful video tutorial.
Use the special ed inclusion documentation forms to keep track of service times, lesson plans, and more. Streamline it all quickly and effectively!
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Read my five promises on creating and selecting teacher PD that you'll actually love! These promises will be apart of my Virtual Art Retreat!
Try these 100 Prompts for Teachers to Ask ChatGPT. Using ChatGPT effectively can not only save you time, but help you to innovate teaching.
Differentiate is likely a word you have heard a million and one times as a teacher. We hear we need to differentiate assignments for our students, but no one really takes the time to explain what that looks like in the classroom. Try out these 6 strategies to differentiate any assignment.
This poster is intended for use by: • Speech Pathologists (SLPs) • Otolaryngologists (ENTs) • GPs and other medical practitioners • Vocal Coaches • Singing and Music Teachers OHS staff can use this resource for health promotion and preventative practices. It may also be of use to people use their voice for their profession (i.e. Teachers, Auctioneers, Real Estate Agents, and Call Centre Staff etc.). This resource is intended for use as a guide only and does not replace the need for professional (medical) assessment of your clients/staff. The poster has been provided at A3 size for quality large poster printing. Borders by Creative Clips and Kim’s Creations Images from Pixabay As with all of the products in this store, this material is copyrighted by The Speech Pickle. Sharing the file directly via the internet/email or re-selling of this item is strictly prohibited. Please direct others interested in using these resources back to the original source (this page).
Happy teachers mean happy students. Here is a list of ways to build morale, support teacher wellbeing and have fun as a teaching team at school.
Advice is available everywhere you look, and some of it is very good. But a lot of those tips won’t work if you fail to follow this one essential rule.
Tracking data can be both hard to start and even harder to gain buy-in from teachers and staff. Using a data wall draws in the staff and gives everyone a role in tracking data across your school. This data wall helps track beginning, middle, and end of the year data, makes monitoring the progress of RtI, gifted, and special education students much easier, and will help cultivate a data-driven faculty who is eager to watch students' data increase and to find new strategies to implement to make this happen. This product includes everything needed to start your Reading Growth Data Wall and to initiate data-driven discussions in your school. ✨Product Includes: • Ready to Go Resources • Data Meeting Agendas • Data Wall Labels • Student Data Chart • Author’s Note – How to Use • Data Wall Cards ready for Mail Merge • Mail Merge Directions – PC & Mac • Excel File Labeled • Practice Mail Merge • Proficiency Level Sheets • Video Guidance for Data Wall Use and Mail Merge • Data Meeting 1 Agenda • Data Dig Discussion 1 • Data Meeting 2 Agenda • Data Dig Discussion 2 • Data Meeting 3 Agenda • Data Dig Discussion 3 • Data Dig Question Cards • Black & White Version You may also be interested in: Related Products ⭐ PALS Reading Strategy ⭐ Reading Growth Charts and Conference Form ⭐ Reading Growth Charts and Conference Form - Brochure Format ⭐ Reciprocal Teaching: Reading Strategy
