COACHING AND TEACHER SUPPORT
Many years as a department head has given me valuable experience helping teachers grow. Whether you are a new teacher, an experienced educator teaching a new course, or an educator with any amount of experience interested in improving, I can offer some of the following to help you accelerate your learning curve:
- Teaching materials: including activities, worksheets/workbooks, review packages, and tests and quizzes.
- Advice on the curriculum: what is most important or most challenging for students, how might you introduce new and difficult topics, what are common misperceptions that students have, etc. This will enable you be more effective sooner.
- Pedagogical techniques: for example, how might you incorporate more groupwork in your classes? How can you help students become better problem solvers? How can you help students better understand themselves as learners?
- Class observations and feedback.
"I taught for several years before working with Mark and I thought I had a good grasp of teaching. However, with Mark's guidance I not only have improved as a teacher, but also recognize more acutely where I need to push to become better. Working with him made me more reflective in my teaching practices and question alternative approaches to topics I'd taught for years, all the while focusing on the student experience. He was the mentor I never knew I needed."
Shawn Bartok, Concord Academy math teacher