Title

Coaching For Success: Ucf Enrichment Programs In Literacy

Keywords

Coaching; Diagnosis; Reading assessment; Reading clinic; Tutoring

Abstract

Purpose – The chapter provides the reader with an overview of the UCF Enrichment Programs in Literacy that includes a year-round reading clinic with undergraduate and graduate students serving as clinicians and a summer Digital Storytelling Camp. The focus of the chapter is on the development and evolution of these programs, with an emphasis on the role of coaching in the clinic process. Methodology/approach – The authors describe how they used Bean’s Levels of Coaching Complexity (2004), adapting it to their clinical setting, to meet the current high demand for reading coaches in schools, and to strengthen their reading program courses and practicum experiences. Practical implications – In addition to providing a comprehensive overview of the UCF Enrichment Programs in Literacy, this chapter includes the nuts and bolts of how the authors ‘‘coach for success’’ in the reading clinic. This involves coaching for success during data collection, in the analysis and decision-making process, in the delivery of tutoring, and beyond the clinic setting. Along with the tutoring process, specific teaching tools (including student samples) and photographs are shared in order to allow for replication by educators who read this chapter. Social implications – This chapter suggests how reading programs in colleges of education can reexamine their existing field experiences to develop a more deliberate model intended to (1) extend clinician skills in reading assessment, diagnosis, and instructional delivery; (2) promote self-reflection and collaborative professional learning; and (3) provide mentoring experiences that can be replicated in school and district settings by graduate student clinicians as they acquire new leadership roles and responsibilities. This chapter proposes programs that offer consistent, affordable instructional support in literacy for children and families in the surrounding community.

Publication Date

1-4-2013

Publication Title

Literacy Research, Practice and Evaluation

Volume

2

Number of Pages

63-86

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1108/S2048-0458(2013)0000002007

Socpus ID

85074071996 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85074071996

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