Here in our district we have "coaches" . There is a math coach and a literacy (reading and writing)coach and an intervention coach and so on. They don't have a classroom of their own. These coaches have proved themselves to be master teachers in certain areas of the curriculum. The put on workshops for the teachers, supervise some of the paraprofessionals, observe a teacher with a lesson and provide feedback. But they also can take the outliers and take them and assess them for the teacher.
Here is another clued for the teacher...if you have an outside test that already gives you some sort of reading level or just saw the kid finish the last Harry potter book...don't start him with the test level for the grade he is in....estimate where you think he is and drop down one would be better than wasting time.
Last edited by Sweetie; 01/21/14 02:09 PM.
