Coaching with ECERS: Strategies and Tools to Improve Quality in Pre-K and K Classrooms - Softcover

Seplocha, Holly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807759546 ISBN 13: 9780807759547

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2018

Synopsis

ECERS is widely used in the United States and internationally to assess the overall quality of preschool and kindergarten classrooms and to provide a framework for continuous quality improvement. This new book in the ERSŪ Family presents best practices to help coaches build trusting relationships with teachers, program directors, and administrators that will improve classroom environments and teaching practices. By using ECERS-3 and ECERS-R as a coaching tool, Holly Seplocha shows coaches and teachers how to work together to implement what is best for children. Each ECERS subscale chapter offers suggestions for quick and easy solutions, as well as strategies for classroom change that generally take more time for teachers to understand and incorporate into daily practice. This resource also includes guidance and activities for facilitating group meetings, professional learning communities, and staff workshops. Coaching with ECERS will help refine classroom practices and environments so that scores will rise, not just for the day, but for every day.

Book Features:

• Outlines the nuts and bolts of coaching with ECERS in a way that has meaning and impacts classroom practice.
• Provides an overview of adult learning and coaching strategies, incorporating techniques for coaching novice and experienced teachers, as well as administrators.
• Examines the diversity of roles, from peer coaching to coaching from the inside or outside of the program, to administrators and supervisors who coach within their role.
• Presents the case for building onsite program capacity for coaches who target their efforts with administrators.
• Offers hands-on advice, strategies, and tools including “ECERS Tips” and "No, No, Never, Nevers," as well as helpful resources to support coaches and administrators.

About this title

Book Description:

“Both experienced and novice coaches will find this resource of great value. It will be a reminder and a source of new ideas for the experienced, while acting as a clear and realistic source of the basics of TA for the new coach. It provides the theory and the facts, both necessary for coaching. We, the authors of the ECERS, thank Holly for writing this much-needed resource, and hope that the book eases the challenges that coaches face every day.”
—From the Foreword by
Debby Cryer, Richard M. Clifford, Thelma Harms,
and
Noreen Yazejian
, authors of the ERS

"Dr. Seplocha offers coaching ideas to use with both teachers and directors and emphasizes how best practices result in benefits for children. In her very practical and straightforward style, she breaks down the ECERS subscales into easy-to-tackle steps that will more readily lead to improvements in program quality."
—
Judy Jablon
, Leading for Children

“In this book, Holly Seplocha provides a thorough and well-organized tool box for those working with teachers to improve the quality of early childhood programs. The book not only deeply explores all aspects of implementing the research-based framework for quality, the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, it also digs into the mechanics of effective coaching and mentoring and the ways that adults learn. Seplocha’s approach helps coaches focus their efforts beyond getting a good ECERS score to what is truly critical: getting the best results for children.”
—
Deborah Stahl
, consultant, early childhood policies, programs, and implementation strategies

"This is a must-have resource if you direct an early childhood program, coach programs in a QRIS, or supervise teachers in public schools, Head Start, or any early care and education program. With a practical and realistic approach,
Coaching with ECERS: Strategies and Tools to Improve Quality in Pre-K and K Classrooms
delivers a framework for effective coaching and mentoring of teachers to ensure high-quality classrooms for young children. Using the ECERS subscales as a backdrop, Holly Seplocha offers tips, tools, and techniques for making improvements that last. By focusing on the benefits to children, she advances coaching practice to support genuine growth and durable improvement for early childhood educators and programs for children."
—
Anne Mitchell
, MS, Ed Leadership and President, Early Childhood Policy Research

From the Author:

Holly Seplocha is professor of early childhood education at William Paterson University and project director at the New Jersey Center for Quality Ratings.

About this edition

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0807759546
• ISBN 13: 9780807759547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120