Designed to support a school’s long term ability to understand and teach to struggling learners, the Internal Coach Program provides training to a member of the school faculty to be a resident Hidden Sparks coach—trained in understanding and teaching to diverse learning styles and behaviors, providing classroom centered coaching and strategies for children, and guiding teachers to be reflective educators.
The goal of the Hidden Sparks Internal Coach Program is to deepen and sustain the capacity of schools to understand and teach to diverse learners by training a resident expert in diverse learning styles within the school faculty. Schools designate a member the faculty who receives training in the Schools Attuned approach, behavior management and coaching. The designee shadows and works cooperatively with a Hidden Sparks coach in school for several months, in preparation for assuming coaching responsibilities.
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.
If you are a school faculty member and are interested in hearing more about the ICP program or visiting a ICP professional development session please contact Margaret@HiddenSparks.org, or call (212) 767-7707.
