Literacy Coach: With literacy becoming an intense focus in our education system, it was decided to create a position in SETA Head Start called a Literacy Coach. The person holding that position works directly with our many early learning centers, assisting the teaching staff in implementing appropriate literacy activities in the classroom. In conjunction with the literacy activities, the Literacy Coach ensures each classroom has a literacy work center supplied with all the needed materials, locates and orders books, stays abreast of the research relative to early learning, offers workshops to parents on literacy activities that can be done at home, and advises management on new ideas and innovative methods of supporting children in their literacy learning. With the addition of this position, SETA Head Start has reached a new level of implementation and support to
teachers in the area of early literacy.
Mentor Teachers: Mentor teachers are a unique job classification to SETA Head Start. This position was developed to fill the gap that sometimes exists between training/knowledge and day to day implementation in the classroom. Mentor teachers work with site staff to identify and build upon existing strengths. Plan may include topics such as adult-child interactions, linking observations to assessment, daily routine, room arrangement, teamwork, positive discipline, or developing themes. This practical and supportive guidance has had wonderful results for teaching staff. Mentor teachers, too, say their jobs are most rewarding when they "watch the light bulbs go off in the heads of teachers and suddenly it all makes sense." They also say that assisting staff in creating quality environments for children is a powerful way to provide services to children and their families.
RESOURCES
Classroom Resources:
Celebrate: An Anti-Bias Guide to Enjoying the Holidays
The Complete Learning Center Book
Creating Readers
Creative Curriculum
Everything for Fall
Everything for Spring
Learning to Read and Write
More Than Letters
Playing With Print
Roots & Wings
Transition Magician
Themes Teachers Use
Training/Administrative Support:
The Early Childhood Mentoring Curriculum; A Handbook for Mentors
Early Childhood Workshops that Work
Games Trainers Play
Handbook of Interactive Exercises for Groups
Quicksilver
Teach with Style: A Comprehensive System for Teaching Adults
Training Teachers: A Harvest of Theory and Practice
The Visionary Director
Workshop Essentials
"Don't force the child to learn, create a desire in him
to want to learn."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Literacy Coach: With literacy becoming an intense focus in our education system, it was decided to create a position in SETA Head Start called a Literacy Coach. The person holding that position works directly with our many early learning centers, assisting the teaching staff in implementing appropriate literacy activities in the classroom. In conjunction with the literacy activities, the Literacy Coach ensures each classroom has a literacy work center supplied with all the needed materials, locates and orders books, stays abreast of the research relative to early learning, offers workshops to parents on literacy activities that can be done at home, and advises management on new ideas and innovative methods of supporting children in their literacy learning. With the addition of this position, SETA Head Start has reached a new level of implementation and support to
teachers in the area of early literacy.
Mentor Teachers: Mentor teachers are a unique job classification to SETA Head Start. This position was developed to fill the gap that sometimes exists between training/knowledge and day to day implementation in the classroom. Mentor teachers work with site staff to identify and build upon existing strengths. Plan may include topics such as adult-child interactions, linking observations to assessment, daily routine, room arrangement, teamwork, positive discipline, or developing themes. This practical and supportive guidance has had wonderful results for teaching staff. Mentor teachers, too, say their jobs are most rewarding when they "watch the light bulbs go off in the heads of teachers and suddenly it all makes sense." They also say that assisting staff in creating quality environments for children is a powerful way to provide services to children and their families.
