Please click on the orange Coaching Request Form link below, complete the form, and submit if you would like to make a coaching appointment with me.
Coaching Request Form
Coaching Request Form
My Role As An Instructional Coach Powerpoint
Please email me at [email protected] if you would like to collaborate and work with me in your classroom. |
Who is she and what does she do as an instructional coach?
My name is Marjorie Mahar and this is my third year as an instructional coach in our Beach Park School District, servicing teachers at Howe, Oak Crest, and the Beach Park Middle School. I have collectively worked in the Beach Park School District for over 25 years as a classroom teacher in grades 2-6, and as a literacy resource teacher delivering RTI services for grades K-5. I also spent a few years teaching at a private elementary school. I continue to be excited and honored to have the opportunity to collaborate and work alongside you in your classroom. Please know that I am not in your classroom to evaluate you in any way. My main purpose as an instructional coach is to build positive, trusting relationships with you and your students, support new teachers, and assist you in reaching your goals for your students as well as your own professional development. Although I have many years of experience as a classroom teacher, I am not the expert and will not have all the answers to your questions. I am always in the state of learning new things, trying out to see what works and what doesn’t, and improving my own best practices in the classroom. What I will be able to do, working alongside you, is to use my experience, knowledge, research, resources, and professional contacts to collaborate with you to help you find the answers to your questions or pedagogical needs to help the students in your classroom and your own professional development. I hope I get the opportunity to work with you and your students. I can assist you in many ways, from working through a formal 6-9 week coaching cycle with you, to providing informal planning support that may only require 1-2 sessions together. In a formal coaching cycle, we will work together to look at student work, plan lessons, and co-teach. You will choose the focus based on what will benefit your students the most. Once a week or so, we will meet together for a 30-45 minute planning session to analyze assessments or student work discuss lessons and teaching methods, and use this information to drive further instruction. If you would like to work with me at any time during the school year, please email me at [email protected]. I will respond to you within 24 hours. My calendar will fill up on a first-come, first-serve basis, so I will do my best to accommodate everyone’s needs. Always feel free to email me if you have any questions at [email protected]. My district office will be in Room 277 at the Beach Park Middle School. I look forward to partnering with you this 2018-19 school year! Sincerely, Marjorie Mahar |