Coaching in Home Visiting: Supporting Better Outcomes for Professionals and Families - Softcover

Rau, Angela; Innocenti, Mark; Roggman, Lori; Korfmacher, Jon; Pyle, Nicole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1681257327 ISBN 13: 9781681257327

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Co., 2024

Synopsis

The first coaching guide specially designed for home visitors and their supervisors, this groundbreaking book answers the call for more and better training in early childhood home visiting programs. The expert authors developed this guide for two critical purposes: to give supervisors actionable strategies as they coach home visitors, and to give home visitors principles and practices for coaching families of children from birth to 5 years.

Featuring a who's who of more than 25 interdisciplinary experts, this book goes far beyond "one and done" approaches to training and illuminates the benefits of supported practice, follow-up, and reflection. Readers will learn how to:

• Make the most of parallel practices, in which the best strategies coaches use to partner with coachees are also used by home visitors to partner with caregivers
• Use both reflective supervision and practice-based coaching to enhance work with families
• Apply the principles of adult learning to build respectful and reciprocal coaching relationships
• Implement research-informed coaching strategies that promote well-being for home visitors and families
• Ensure culturally responsive home visiting at both the systems level and the individual home visitor level
• Deliver engaging and effective virtual coaching to both home visitors and families
• Collaborate with early intervention providers to support families who have children with disabilities
• Use coaching to increase and monitor fidelity to evidence-based programs and practices

Perfect for use as a professional development resource or a preservice textbook, this transformative book will help both supervisors and practitioners excel in their roles and improve the lives of children and families.

About this title

About the Author

Christa D. Haring, Ph.D., CCC-SLP served as a special educator, speech-language pathologist, and teacher educator for ten years in public schools spurring her interest in identifying ways to measure and improve outcomes for low-performing teachers and students. Currently, she teaches educator preparation courses centered on instructional practices to improve reading skills for students with dyslexia. Her research focuses on language and literacy interventions for parents, teachers, and innovative community programs supporting children from high-poverty areas.

Dr. Innocenti is Director of the Research and Evaluation Division at the Center for Persons with Disabilities and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, Utah State University. Dr. Innocenti has over 30 years of experience working with infants and young children at-risk and with disabilities and their families in multiple research and model demonstration projects. Using an interdisciplinary model that recognizes the contribution of different disciplines and stakeholders, his research is conducted in and for communities. Recent projects focus on assessment and curriculum, home visiting effectiveness, and preschool intervention to prevent later special education.

Dr. Roggman is Professor in the Department of Family, Consumer, &Human Development at Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, Utah State University. Dr. Roggman's research focuses on parenting and children's early development. She has extensive experience in home visiting research, integrating theory-based inquiry with program evaluation, and training practitioners. She is a strong methodologist with expertise in observational data collection and longitudinal analysis and has authored several observation instruments used extensively by researchers and practitioners. She was principal investigator of a local research team for the national Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brookes Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1681257327
• ISBN 13: 9781681257327
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264