Instructional Coaching
Manheim Central School District
What Can a Coach Do for You?
Coaches can help you accomplish your professional goals and support your growth as a teacher. We help solve your classroom dilemmas -- in classroom management, assessment, pacing, planning, writing, reading, lesson design, and more through a cycle of listening, asking relevant questions, and offering insight and resources. A coach's work is consultative, not evaluative, so feel free to share your questions, concerns, and ideas in a judgment-free space where you can examine your praxis and get creative.
I look forward to working with you this year!
Who Works With a Coach?
Teachers who:
- are new to the profession or new to the school
- are veteran educators ready to try something new
- want to implement a new instructional strategy like Philosophical Chairs or Socratic Discussion
- need support with Collins Writing
- want feedback about an instructional or behavioral issue
- want to see a strategy, lesson format, etc. demonstrated before trying it
- want an extra set of eyes in their classroom
- are struggling with some aspect of their class
- want assistance with planning a new lesson or unit
- have questions about an instructional strategy, classroom management tool, technology enriched assignment, educational trend, or reading/writing issue
- are looking for resources or research to support their work
Instructional Coaching Menu of Services
Below is a menu of services outlining some of the ways in which I can help you this year. Consider which of these services would be most useful or helpful to you and email or stop by to schedule an appointment.
- co-planning lessons or units
- demonstration lessons
- co-teaching
- professional text study and implementation of strategies outlined in text
- videorecording and viewing lessons
- brainstorming about literacy, technology, new strategies, increasing instructional variety
- help with writer's conference and peer editing
- providing support/assistance with reading instruction, writing instruction, and/or assessment design
- providing support for data analysis at student/classroom/teacher level
- researching and resource gathering
Adapted from Practical Literacy Coaching: A Collection of Tools to Support Your Work by Jan Miller Burkins. 2009. International Reading Association.
Rae Randazzo, M.Ed.
Instructional Coach
Manheim Central School District
Email: randazzor@manheimcentral.org
Website: http://schoology.manheimcentral.org/group/359836767
Phone: 717-664-8457