If you've ever played a sport, you know that a coach's primary purpose is to motivate his/her players to achieve their potential.  A coach works as a partner with his/her player to target areas for improvement while further developing areas of strength.  A good coach cultivates an environment of respect and rolls his/her sleeves up to get to the work.  

Like an athletic coach, an instructional coach does just the same:
works as a partner to target areas for improvement while further developing areas of strength.  

• • Lesson design with student engagement in mind--Work with an instructional coach to walk through developing a lesson or unit plan.  We'll start with the standards and work our way through student learning targets. 

  • Use instructional technology strategies related to your learning targets--Work with a coach to effectively select technology that complements your student learning targets.

  • Align resources to learning targets--Work with a coach to target resources that align to student learning outcomes for instructional, differentiated, or personalized learning purposes.

  • 4 C’s integration (Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, and Critical Thinking)--With student engagement in mind, work with a coach to integrate the 4C's into your unit plan/lesson plan.  

  • Develop stronger questioning techniques--Work with a coach to identify the types of DoK (Depth of Knowledge) questions you use in class to work on better questioning tactics.  Use different questioning techniques and strategies for authentic student learning.

  • Problem Based Learning (PBL) Projects--Collaborate with a coach to develop PBL projects.

  • Create manageable formative assessments throughout the year.

  • Create a Canvas Blended Learning course--Work with an instructional coach to design a semester or year long class