Sue Anderson This is Me

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1. 1. Cultivating language skills

   www.courier-journal.com/apps/p - [Cached]

   Published on: 2/9/2005   Last Visited: 2/9/2005

   "Teacher leader" Sue Anderson, left, worked with Bionca Mitchell and Tara Willenborg.
   ...
   Anderson serves as a coach who helps students improve their language skills and gives support to teachers. (BY PAT MCDONOGH, THE COURIER-JOURNAL)
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   So Monday morning, while the rest of the class worked independently, Bionca and Tara got together with Leezer and Sue Anderson, a first-grade teacher who also serves as one of Maple's trained "teacher leaders," or coaches, to work on the problem.
   ...
   Leezer and Anderson provided gentle guidance, and then Anderson offered suggestions on how Leezer might approach a similar challenge in the future.
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   Anderson asked.
   
   Tara thought, then pointed to the "i."
   
   "Try another letter," Anderson said.
   
   "E?" Tara asked.
   
   "Right. Change 'i' to 'e,' " Anderson said, adding later, "That's perfect."
   
   After the girls returned to their seats, Anderson and Leezer talked about the spelling lesson.
   
   Anderson advised stressing what students were seeing by asking questions like, "What looks right to you?" and "What doesn't look right to you?"
   
   That way, students eventually could work out a "strategy" for correctly spelling troublesome words on their own.
   
   Coaching, Anderson said, is a way to provide "another set of eyes and ears" so teachers will be able to see what they're doing and make adjustments.
   
   The technique is used to help all of Maple's teachers, including the coaches.
   
   "People watch me, too," Anderson said, adding with a smile, "Nobody gets off the hook."

2. 2. Cultivating language skills

   www.courierjournal.com/apps/pb - [Cached]

   Published on: 2/9/2005   Last Visited: 2/9/2005

   "Teacher leader" Sue Anderson, left, worked with Bionca Mitchell and Tara Willenborg.
   ...
   Anderson serves as a coach who helps students improve their language skills and gives support to teachers. (BY PAT MCDONOGH, THE COURIER-JOURNAL)
   ...
   So Monday morning, while the rest of the class worked independently, Bionca and Tara got together with Leezer and Sue Anderson, a first-grade teacher who also serves as one of Maple's trained "teacher leaders," or coaches, to work on the problem.
   ...
   Leezer and Anderson provided gentle guidance, and then Anderson offered suggestions on how Leezer might approach a similar challenge in the future.
   ...
   Anderson asked.
   
   Tara thought, then pointed to the "i."
   
   "Try another letter," Anderson said.
   
   "E?" Tara asked.
   
   "Right. Change 'i' to 'e,' " Anderson said, adding later, "That's perfect."
   
   After the girls returned to their seats, Anderson and Leezer talked about the spelling lesson.
   
   Anderson advised stressing what students were seeing by asking questions like, "What looks right to you?" and "What doesn't look right to you?"
   
   That way, students eventually could work out a "strategy" for correctly spelling troublesome words on their own.
   
   Coaching, Anderson said, is a way to provide "another set of eyes and ears" so teachers will be able to see what they're doing and make adjustments.
   
   The technique is used to help all of Maple's teachers, including the coaches.
   
   "People watch me, too," Anderson said, adding with a smile, "Nobody gets off the hook."

3. 3. The Fourth Annual LNConference

   www.rcowen.com/TLNCnfRecp2000. - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/9/2000   Last Visited: 2/3/2003

   Sue Anderson is a teacher leader and a first-grade teacher at Maple Elementary, a school receiving continuing contact support from The Learning Network in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Sue supports classroom teachers in a full inclusionary model.