In case you’re an instructional coach (or teacher) wondering how you might use an iPad to support your work, I hope the ideas below will save you some time in “figuring it out.” Notes Plus
I’ve been test-driving my new system for the past few weeks and I like it…a lot. So I persevered and finally came up with a functional system. I wasn’t doing a good job of making my notes accessible to teachers and my notes felt more like a jumbled mess than a solid record of our work together.īy using an iPad, I had the opportunity to not only improve my efficiency and effectiveness, but to also serve as a model for other teachers for how they might use an iPad. On the other hand, I really don’t like it. I like paper and pencil because it feels much less intrusive in a classroom than a laptop and it’s also what I’m used to, so I feel comfortable with it. Up to this point, I had been doing my observations and debriefs with paper and pencil and keeping them all in a binder. Well, this figuring out piece ended up taking much more time than I thought…but I thought I was on to something. OK, I thought, I’ll just figure it out on my own.
There was very little information however (none really!) on how to use an iPad as an instructional coach. Then I began to wonder about how I might use it to support the work I do as an instructional coach…hmmm…Īfter a few Google searches, I found a wealth of information on how to use the iPad in the classroom. As I started to work with it, I focused mainly on researching and testing out different apps and iBooks to support literacy instruction. I’m super lucky…over the past few months, I have had the opportunity to play around with one of our school’s 30 iPads. IPad for Instructional Coaches Instructional Coaching, Teaching Tips
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