What is a STEM Coach?
A STEM coach is an educator who collaborates with teachers to help support core instruction (tier 1) setting the stage for students to be more successful in the classroom.
What a STEM Coach is What a STEM Coach isn't
-Private and confidential -Evaluator
-Student centered -Interventionist
-Data and researched based -"Fixing a teacher”
-Collaborative with the teacher and administrators -Judgmental
-Collaborates on math goals together
-Meets with teachers to go over lesson, lesson plans, data etc.
-Analyzing Data
- Helps with different forms of assessment
-Supports teachers to implement quality tier 1 instruction
-Models best practices
-Instructs professional development
Why a STEM Coach?
Top athletes and singers have coaches. Should you?
Coaches are likes editors or pro-sport coaches
Second pair of eyes, another opinion
Feel that you have someone there to support you
Someone to get an opinion from or ideas from
Resource: The Coach in the Operating Room By Atul Gawande in The New Yorker
