Guidance on learning principles that enable growth, virtual coaching strategies, practicing basic teaching skills remotely, and learning loops models that foster collective learning among fellows
If we expect students in our classrooms to learn differently, we must help adults in our classrooms learn differently as well. These resources explore how exceptional teachers have learned and grown—which holds true even in virtual contexts.
Core Insights: Five Principles of Collective Learning
How Program Designers Can Best Evolve Training and Support Models
This resource is useful to inform adjustments to the teacher actions, mindsets and learning theory at virtual or remote training institutes.
Collective Leadership & Learning Workbook for Classroom Leaders
Looking to step back and evolve your teacher-excellence model? This resource is useful for program staff who are redesigning their training and support initiatives to better support classrooms that pursue broader student leadership outcomes.
Principles of Collective Learning: Example Strategies
One way to explore the five learning principles is to consider strategies a learner or a learning designer might use to bring the principles to light. See this resource for some examples of such strategies.
Many teacher coaches are developing new strategies of support, looking to build sustainable, trusting environments virtually or remotely. We will continue to evolve this section as we collect examples of innovative, virtual approaches to coaching from within and outside the network.
Reflection for Coaches
The vision for student success that informs this work has dramatic implications for what is valued, measured, and grown. This activity shares key concepts and questions for reflection, especially for coaches.
Teach For America's Coaching Resources for Institute
This package of resources shares sample schedules, coaching methods, how to deliver coaching conversations to guides on effective questioning. [Requires login to Portal]
Teach For All & Bright Morning Coaching Opportunity
This series provides access to a library of coaching session videos from Bright Morning is a coach development organization led by Elena Aguilar. Open to staff from Teach For All organizations through the end of September, but you must have to sign up for the Virtual Summit series to access session videos.
We would love to learn from you! If you have a related resource or example of how you are thinking about virtual learning in your context, please consider sharing with us.
Find more resources (including more videos and practical tools that may be useful for virtual learning with fellows) on our website.
A resource hub to share examples of how our global network has responded to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Note: Only open to Staff of Teach For All network partner organizations.