What is a Dual Language Coach?
A Dual Language Coach is an educator who provides job-embedded professional development to other Dual Language Educators in order to help the program equitably provide the best education for all students, with a special focus on Emerging Bilinguals.
Who can be a Dual Language Coach?
- Instructional Coaches
- Curriculum Specialists
- Teacher Leaders
- Principals and Assistant Principals
- Directors of Bilingual Programs
What can A Dual Language Coach do?
- Coaching Conversations
- Classroom Observations
- Co-planning
- Co-teaching
- Data collection and analysis
- Modeling
- Role-Playing
- Researching
- Sharing Resources
- Connecting Colleagues
- Presenting Artifacts
- Facilitating teams of Dual Language Educators
- Presenting Professional Development Workshops
Dual Language Coaches can help in the areas of:
- Using Dual Language Instructional Strategies
- Planning for all three Dual Language Goals- Language, Content, & Sociocultural Competence
- Developing a Classroom Culture
- Understanding the structure of the Dual Language Program- Language Allocation, Separation of Language, use of Translanguaging
- Authentically Assessing Dual Language students and interpreting data accurately
- Developing Sociohistorical Awareness
- Identifying and Responding to Inequities
- Communicating and engaging with families and community
- Advocating for Dual students, teachers and programs