NEW EDITION

of bestselling guide for successful coaching practices!

Contents

1. About The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook, Second Edition
2. Features
3. New Content
4. Online Forms

About The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook, Second Edition

How can you support both colleagues and families as they enhance their knowledge, develop new skills, and promote healthy development of young children? Coaching is the key—and the new edition of this bestselling guide is packed with even more practical tools to help early childhood professionals conduct skillful coaching in homes, schools, and communities. Like the popular first edition, this book walks you step-by-step through the five characteristics of successful coaching practices:

• observation
• reflection
• joint planning
• action
• feedback

Features

About the Features

The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook, Second Edition includes a variety of features designed to enhance reader understanding.
Examples include:

• Embedded opportunities to reflect, observe, and practice
• Terminology definitions
• Coaching scripts and scenarios
• Sample completed forms and routine
• Chapter conclusions and routine
• References and routine

Terminology Definitions

Each chapter contains definitions of more than a dozen important terms explained in the context of The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook, Second Edition.

Coaching Scripts and Scenarios

Each chapter contains coaching scripts and multiple scenarios woven into chapters to illustrate and provide examples of how individual characteristics or elements of the practices described might look when implemented.

Embedded Opportunities to Reflect

Each chapter contains opportunities for reflection, which include thinking about current or future practices and applying or using the information learned to build on one’s own current knowledge and skills.

Embedded Opportunities to Observe

Each chapter provides opportunities to observe one's practices or the practices of others regarding a specific characteristic or element of coaching.

Embedded Opportunities to Practice

Each chapter includes ideas for putting information into action by applying learned content to real-life contexts.

Remember Notations

Each chapter contains Remember notations that highlight important elements of coaching practices necessary for adding to or building one’s own conceptual and operational frameworks for coaching.

Chapter Conclusions

Each chapter concludes with a summary to highlight key concepts from the text.

Figures and Tables

Tables and figures reinforce important concepts and provide ways to easily understand the material.

Sample Completed Forms

Embedded examples walk readers through completing the included forms. Fillable PDF forms are available online to purchasers of the book.

References

The References section includes review articles, research findings, and key references for additional information.

Coaching Scenario Matrix

The Coaching Scenario Matrix provides a comprehensive listing of all case examples, including type, topic, context, child characteristics, coachee, coach, and page numbers.

New Content

About the Content

In the new edition, you’ll find:

• More scripts and scenarios that show what coaching looks and sounds like in the real world
• A Coaching Scenario Matrix to find relevant examples quickly
• New chapter on coaching for early intervention service coordinators
• Enhanced guidance on coaching throughout the IFSP process

New examples addressing common coaching challenges

• Expanded guidance on coaching coaches
• Answers to key questions from the authors' popular training sessions
• Practical forms now as fillable PDFs for download
• Updated research on the effectiveness of coaching

Online Forms

About the Forms

The blank forms included in the appendices are widely used for professional and educational purposes. These forms are available as fillable PDFs for purchasers of the second edition of The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook.

• Coaching Plan
• Coaching Practices Rating Scale
• Framework for Reflective Questioning
• Coaching Log

Coaching Plan

Used to develop the initial coaching plan and the action plans for achieving desired outcomes.

Framework for Reflective Questioning

Helps coaches evaluate the entire coaching process, recognizing what worked and what could be done differently next time.

Coaching Practices Rating Scale

Determines how well a practitioner is using coaching practices with families or colleagues.

Coaching Log

Helps coaches record and critically analyze a coaching conversation.

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