BUILD YOUR SKILLS:
Part of the planning and design process involves assisting teachers with interpreting classroom or student data in order to identify priorities for improvements. Coaches can start by helping teachers to reflect on child data and progress monitoring results. Coaches can use data from sources such as developmental checklists, assessments, or progress monitoring reports. Through this data analysis process, the teacher and coach can identify additional intervention supports that may be needed for specific children. Ultimately, coaches can help teachers to adapt instruction and /interactions in ways that are more individualized to children’s needs. A coach should be very familiar with the data source prior to this conversation, in order to guide the teacher as needed. Integrating information from child progress monitoring tools within planning/design conversations can be a powerful way to increase teachers’ intentionality.
Some competencies you might use while working with a practitioner include:
- The coach prompts the practitioner to think about and question the extent to which their instruction and interaction matches the targeted developmental or learning objectives.
- The coach incorporates conversations about learning standards into reflective discussions to help the practitioner think about how their lessons and interactions align with key child outcomes.
- The coach connects reflection opportunities to child data and progress monitoring results to strengthen the practitioner’s ability to recognize opportunities to adapt instruction and interactions to individualize support.
- The coach helps the practitioner learn to interpret performance data to identify priorities for improvement in their own practice.
- The coach helps the practitioner learn to interpret classroom data to identify priorities for improvement in the skill development of their students/classroom staff
Mentoring Prompts
Progress Monitoring:
- “Let’s take a look at your data to guide our planning session.”
- “This classroom data is used to identify student strengths and areas of improvement. This will help us identify their learning needs and track progress.”
- “Let’s dig deeper into the areas you feel your children are struggling in.”
Screening & Referral:
- “What are developmental milestones for your students?”
- “Let’s review your developmental checklist to track your student progress.”