Let's Talk Instruction & Supervision of Learning

      Think of some words that describe a great mentor and coach     When I think of words that describe a mentor, I think dependable, helpful, educated, willing, experienced, reliable, strong work ethic, and caring. These are similar words that I would use to describe an instructional coach. Working at the secondary level, we do not have an instructional coach specific to our campus, we have in the past, but that was a position that was absorbed and used to to cover our junior high, high school, and alternative campus. Lacking an instructional coach on campus in my opinion has been a bit frustrating. As a teacher, I unfortunately used to question what an instructional coach really did all day. I hate to even admit that. When I was a special education teacher, instructional coaches did not offer or typically assist us as they did general education teachers. That has changed tremendously in the past couple of years. At that time, I was unable to observe the ...

Response To Intervention (Blog  #2) Making the Most of Progress Monitoring by Jung      The article “Making the Most of Progress Monitoring” by Jung stood out to me most out of all the articles for Module 3. I am familiar with data collection based on my background in special education, however, tracking RTI is a bit different. The features Jung mentioned caught my attention based on the similarities and differences when compared to special education. Working at the secondary level, we often feel like RTI is non-existent. The reading supported was well communicating that elementary reading has strong development, but other subjects and secondary reading have very little guidance or direction. Therefore, the features discussed could be highly beneficial to the secondary level. Understanding that short-term and long-term goals/targets should be specific in nature, not vague. We do not want different interpretations or opinions to cast a different light on what is being...