Coaching Menu
Below are some ways we can partner with you and, if you wish, your team.
Guided planning: instructor and instructional coach meet to plan.
Data examination: instructor and instructional coach engage in a solution-oriented conversation about student data.
Co-observing other teachers: instructor and instructional coach visit another teacher or teachers and reflect on those conversations. Here’s a tool that might guide that visit & reflection.
Partner demonstration lessons: instructor and instructional coach co-plan and co-deliver a lesson or part of a lesson.
Strategy modeling: instructional coach visits instructor’s class, modeling a strategy.
Coaching cycle: instructor and instructional coach co-plan. Instructor delivers instruction with visit by instructional coach and together reflect.
Using Cognitive Coaching methodologies, coach helps educator…
Reflect on a problem
Plan an upcoming experience
Problem-solve
Class visits: instructional coach visits learning space, gathering data related to one of the instructor’s professional goals using one of the tools below. Instructional coach and instructor engage in a follow-up reflection.
Tracking instructor movement
Student shadowing or You Pick 4
Resources:
Professional texts: we have a variety of readings we’d love to share. These resources explore a multitude of subjects and come in a variety of forms (printed articles, online resources, audiobooks, and full-length texts.)
Thinking partners: it is our privilege to know the expertise of many professionals in the building and, through that knowledge and that expert’s willingness, to connect you with another teacher/ educator/ instructor who can be a collaborator and sounding board.