Special Education Coaching Menu
Providing support for your goals
Appetizers: Want to get started slowly
Student Problem Solving: Collaboratively brainstorm ways to help students reach their full potential.
Accommodations or modifications: Help provide opportunities for student success in the classroom by collaboratively designing accommodations or modifications for tests, assignments, projects, or activities.
Co-Planning:
- Collaboratively plan a lesson or series of lessons for NASA or collaborative classes.
- Collaborate with you and a classroom co-teacher to design ways to get the most out of your collaborative classes.
Professional Development: Partner with individuals or small groups on professional development goals to learn about and implement new teaching practices or programs.
Round Up Resources: Hunt for engaging technology or other lesson components to support your classroom.
Main Entree: Ready to jump in
Videotaping: Through the coaching cycle, videotape your lesson and collaboratively reflect on student learning in your classroom.
Data Chats: Collaboratively analyze formative assessment data to enrich instructional decisions.
Desserts: Eager for more to help me reach my goals
Networking: Help you connect with other teachers with similar goals.
Brainstorming: Collaboratively bounce innovative ideas of each other.
Modelling: Plan a lesson with a coach and then observe the coach using the strategy. Collaboratively reflect on student learning within the coach's lesson.
Classroom Guest: Cover your class so you can go observe another teacher.
Renee McCombs
Email: rmccombs@norwalk.k12.ia.us