[LIT] Feedback Desired

[David Hoh]

Chris,
I'm not a literacy coach or anything like that -- "just" a classroom 
teacher -- but I'd like to second emphatically everything May wrote. Were I 
in your position, I would be guided by what I would want an expert teacher 
to do for me, and for me that is to show me exactly what the lesson should 
look like if I were leading it.

I actually think a better approach to modeling is to have the "learning" 
teacher observe the coach or mentor with his or her own kids. That takes 
away the special effect of the teacher being a visitor in the classroom, so 
you get to see the real thing. During my rookie year, often when I was 
giving a test, I got coverage to go watch my mentor teacher with her class. 
Then I was able to come back to my own class and do the exact same lesson, 
since my class hadn't seen it before.

Dave Hoh
6th grade / NJ