Meeting With A Literacy Coach

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1. During my time in field, I did not see many interactions between my host teacher and other professionals in the building. However, one week I did see my teacher meet with the schools literacy coach and have the literacy coach observe and make suggestions to improve my host teacher’s effectiveness in the classroom. The two, host teacher and literacy coach, met to improve student’s comprehension on texts at their reading level that were nonfiction. Due to the students having limited background knowledge on the topics, the literacy sat into a lesson, made suggestions, and then sat in again to see how effective the implementations were. With this, they hoped that the students would be able to more successfully comprehend nonfiction texts and …show more content…

There were many roles that took place in this interaction, the host teacher was the leader, due to the fact that she was the one implementing the methods and ensuring that students succeed, but the literacy coach was the behind the scenes leader that ensured that the teacher was able to effectively teach the students and was using her time to maximize the students potential. The also, the teacher also played the role as the student in learning and implementing the new methods she was being taught, then the literacy coach was the teacher in teaching the new methods.

• During the meeting, my host teacher taught the lesson as the literacy coach observed the lesson and took notes on what she was doing and what things she would have changed during the lesson. After the lesson they discussed what things were done correctly, where the weaknesses were, and what things could have been changed to make the instruction more effective.
• My host teacher communicated that she believed some suggestions were beneficial, however, she did not like all of them. The one in particular that she was not pleased with was that the literacy coach suggested that she only cover five vocabulary words at the beginning of each book, and have her pick the five that would be most beneficial. However, in nonfiction books, there are many vocabulary words that children with limited background knowledge have no experience with, inhibiting their

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