Student-Centered Coaching
What it is
What it is
- an opportunity for us to work in a partnership to enhance teaching and learning
- guided by learning targets based on the standards
- deciding instructional strategies based on student evidence
- collaborative and supportive
What it isn't
What it isn't
- teacher evaluative
- telling someone what to do
- a "fix the teacher" mentality
Our Guiding Principles:
Our Guiding Principles:
As student-centered coaches, we hold ourselves responsible to the following guiding principles:
Put kids first: They are the reason we are here, in order to help them learn.
Listen: We listen more than we talk.
Ask Questions: Seek first to understand by asking questions.
Collaborate: Work with others, form a partnership in order to learn together.
Be Professional: Our work together is confidential and non-evaluative.
Be Positive: Assume positive intent, always look for the good in what is happening