Module Six: Joint Planning in Coaching Interactions

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the role of a coaching style of interaction in achieving CQI

• Recognize the variety of early childhood coaching approaches and programs

• Use joint decision-making with their coach partner to put ideas into practice

• Create healthy, engaging coach relationships by collaboratively writing joint planning documents

• Use Colorado’s Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and Professionals to help create goals and action steps and to reflect on growth in teaching practice and/or goal completion 

Module Resources:

These resources are needed before or used for the Module 6 session.

• BBC Life: Plants. 6 month time lapse in one minute 

• Rush and Sheldon Videos on the coaching style of interaction (Video segment 2:58- 7:21)

• Foundations of Coaching in Early Childhood: Joint Planning (Chapter 2) 

• Professional Development Information System - PDIS

• EQIT Coaching with the Relate for RBPD 2020 

• Stacy Petty on LENA Grow: The sunshine and the light

• LENA Grow

• Practice-Based Coaching Overview 

• Pyramid Facilitator Certification

Additional Module Resources:

• Looking To The Past To Shape Colorado’s Future: 30 Years of Progress for Young Children and Families. 

• NAEYC Early Care and Education Professional Development: Training and Technical Assistance Glossary

• Coaching early childhood teachers: A systematic review of its effects on teacher instruction and child development.

• Effects of in-service programs on childcare teachers’ interaction quality: A meta-analysis

• Impact of In-Service Professional Development Programs for Early Childhood Teachers on Quality Ratings and Child Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis.

• The Cognitive Impact of Past Behaviors: Influences on Beliefs, Attitudes and Future Behavioral Decisions Dolores Albarracin & Robert S Wyer, Jr, 2016

• Practice-Based Coaching 

• The National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning (NCECDTL) 

Books

• The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook by Dr. Dathan D. Rush Ed.D. and Dr. M'Lisa L. Shelden PT Ph.D. 

Competencies

• Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and Professionals

• Colorado Competencies for Early Childhood Coaches