%0 Journal Article
%T The power of one
%A Elizabeth A Morphis
%J Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
%@ 1463-9491
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1463949117740713
%X This article focuses on a shift in the author¡¯s approach to teaching a literacy course to a coaching-based model after observing pre-service teachers ¡°struggle¡± to implement the teaching practices during on-site fieldwork with a kindergarten, first-, or second-grade child partner. The author discusses how she provided more timely feedback and instruction by coaching the undergraduate students who were taking a course she taught while the students were working with an elementary child partner and preparing a running-record assessment. Coaching provided the pre-service teachers with a deeper level of understanding of specific literacy practices in the early childhood classroom, and it afforded them the opportunity to reflect on the objective of the literacy practice in a way that let them better use it during their own teaching
%K Early childhood education
%K literacy
%K pre-service teachers
%K teacher preparation
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1463949117740713