About this ebook
This book in the Environment Rating Scale® Family presents best practices for coaches to use in their work with teachers and administrators to help them improve classrooms and teaching practices. The author includes guidance and activities for facilitating group meetings, professional learning communities, and staff workshops. Appropriate for use with ECERS-3 and ECERS-R.
Book Features:
Outlines the nuts and bolts of coaching with ECERS in a way that has meaning and impacts classroom practice.Provides an overview of adult learning and coaching strategies, incorporating techniques for coaching novice and experienced teachers, as well as administrators.Examines the diversity of roles, from peer coaching to coaching from the inside or outside of the program, to administrators and supervisors who coach within their role.Presents the case for building onsite program capacity for coaches who target their efforts with administrators.Offers hands-on advice, strategies, and tools including “ECERS Tips” and “No, No, Never, Nevers,” as well as helpful resources to support coaches and administrators.“We, the authors of the ECERS, thank Holly for writing this much-needed resource, and hope that the book eases the challenges that coaches face every day.”
—From the Foreword by Debby Cryer, Richard M. Clifford, Thelma Harms, and Noreen Yazejian
“In her very practical and straightforward style, Dr. Seplocha breaks down the ECERS subscales into easy-to-tackle steps that will more readily lead to improvements in program quality.”
—Judy Jablon, Leading for Children
“Seplocha’s approach helps coaches focus their efforts beyond getting a good ECERS score to what is truly critical: getting the best results for children.”
—Deborah Stahl, consultant, early childhood implementation
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About the author
Holly Seplocha is professor of early childhood education at William Paterson University and project director at the New Jersey Center for Quality Ratings.
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