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Instructional Instructional CoachingCoaching
Rachel Wagner Rachel Wagner
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Nicole Vicki Nicole Vicki
““Decades of research clearly Decades of research clearly demonstrate that a quality teacher, demonstrate that a quality teacher, more than any other factor, enables more than any other factor, enables students to overcome obstacles to students to overcome obstacles to learning like poverty and can even learning like poverty and can even erase the achievement gap.”erase the achievement gap.”
Alliance for Education, Alliance for Education, 20062006
TodayToday
AllAll students must master rigorous content, students must master rigorous content, learn how to learn, pursue productive learn how to learn, pursue productive employment, employment, and compete in a global and compete in a global economyeconomy..
Instructional CoachingInstructional Coaching
Definition:Definition:–Instructional coaches are Instructional coaches are on-site professional on-site professional developers who assist developers who assist educators how to use educators how to use proven research based proven research based instructional methods. instructional methods.
Theory behind coachingTheory behind coaching
Implementation Implementation rate of traditional rate of traditional professional professional development vs. development vs. instructional instructional coachingcoaching
What do we work on?What do we work on?
Classroom ManagementClassroom Management Assessment (formative and Assessment (formative and
summative)summative) Feedback on LessonsFeedback on Lessons Data AnalysisData Analysis Co-planning of Lessons Co-planning of Lessons Demonstration LessonsDemonstration Lessons Incorporation of TechnologyIncorporation of Technology
Our goals as coaches:Our goals as coaches:
Meet teachers Meet teachers where they are and where they are and take teachers to take teachers to the next step.the next step.
Goal-orientedGoal-oriented Ultimate: Impact Ultimate: Impact
student learning!student learning!
What a Coach is NOT…What a Coach is NOT…•Evaluator•Supervisor•“The Expert”•A “Whistle Blower”•The “Fixer”•A tutor for state testing!