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“Let's FaceTime Tonight”: Using Digital Tools to Enhance Coaching
Author(s) -
Leighton Christine M.,
FordConnors Evelyn,
Robertson Dana A.,
Wyatt Jennifer,
Wagner Christopher J.,
Proctor C. Patrick,
Paratore Jeanne R.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1002/trtr.1676
Subject(s) - dyad , coaching , dialogic , psychology , digital literacy , unit (ring theory) , mathematics education , literacy , curriculum , pedagogy , space (punctuation) , multimedia , computer science , social psychology , psychotherapist , operating system
This article documents a collaboration between a second‐grade teacher and a university‐based literacy coach to implement dialogic instruction as part of a 14‐week cross‐disciplinary curriculum unit. The coach–teacher dyad used digital technologies to enhance a problem‐solving approach to coaching. The authors describe the coaching interactions, the digital tools used (e.g., e‐mail, FaceTime, text messaging, video and audio recordings), the problems that the coach–teacher dyad collaboratively addressed over three phases of the unit, and the student learning that occurred in response. Throughout, the authors highlight how the coach and teacher made flexible use of digital technology to carve out additional time and space for problem solving as they worked to support the language and literacy skills of a group of multilingual second‐grade students.