Goals
Stage: Starting Point
Goal Information
Date: January 28, 2026Notes
Coaching Session #1 – Verifying Perspectives
- This or That
Movie first or book first?
Fiction or non-fiction?
Handwritten notes or emails to a close friend?
- Learning about your background
Who or what influenced you to become a teacher?
What experiences have you had as a teacher including districts, schools, grade levels?
- Examining your professional beliefs
What is something you strongly believe in when it comes to educating children?
What do you consider to be the single most important literacy strategy you use in your classroom?
What do you want to gain from coaching related to literacy practices?
How are the district’s curriculum materials helping or challenging for your students?
What is a goal we can work on this week?
- Work for next coaching session
Narrated tour of your classroom
Assigned classroom video
Ideas for goals based on challenges in the classroom and problems of practice from your Canvas course
- The Foundations of the Science of Reading
- Assessments
- Oral Language
- Phonological & Phonemic Awareness
- Phonics (Encoding and Decoding)
- Fluency
Discuss the challenges you might face in working on implementing your goals throughout the 8 weeks
Read the elements of Modules 1 and 2 including taking the self-assessment at the end of the module. Meghan will email me what element of the modules she would like to take an in-depth view of next coaching session.
Meghan and I used the session to get to know one another. We began with This or That, then transitioned to learning about Meghan’s background in teaching. We examined her professional beliefs and discussed what would be completed for the next coaching session on February 4. Meghan will complete a video narrating a tour of her classroom, video a short lesson of 2 English learners working on letter tracing for the letters in their names, and read the materials in Modules 1 and Module 2. Meghan will email me what topic within the modules she would like to focus on for next week once she has had a chance to get caught up reading and viewing the materials. We will think about more significant goals after she is caught up.
We discussed the current curriculum materials the district is using and what is challenging for the students and for instruction. The 95% program is very scripted, taught whole group, and may work better for non-Title I schools and students. Meghan is concerned that the Wit and Wisdom program may not align with the standards. Meghan is looking for “real world” resources for her students and assessments she can use with them.
There are currently 17 students in the classroom with a high number of English learners. About half of the students are performing at a low level and about half are performing at a high level. She feels there are no mid-level students in her classroom.