The Hidden Sparks External Coach Program offers in-school professional development in understanding and teaching to diverse learning styles, enhancing understanding of behavior, classroom centered coaching, and learning strategies for maximizing student success. This program is operating in eight Jewish day schools and yeshivot in the New York Metropolitan area. It is geared to educators in kindergarten through sixth grade.
Elements of the program include:
- Workshops on Language, Attention, Memory, Temporal Sequential Organization, Social Cognition, Higher Order Cognition, Ordering Systems, Understanding Behavior, Positive Behavioral Support.
- Monthly facilitated meetings with review of all students’ learning styles. Presentations on aspects of learning and behavior discussed at each meeting with specific application to children in the class and learning strategies for the struggling learner.
- Weekly guided classroom observation and one-to-one teacher coaching.
- Coaches with expertise tie in learning and behavior work with the teachers to deepen participating teachers’ understanding and ability.
Currently, this multi-year program is full. If you are interested in upcoming openings, please contact Debbie Niderberg, Executive Director, at dknider@hiddensparks.org.
