Full Description
Learn how to make instructional coaching more empowering and effective by supporting teachers as learners and leaders in their own classrooms. This unique book offers a powerful assets-based coaching framework that capitalizes on teachers' strengths, internal motivation, and professional goals. The authors provide a useful analysis of popular theories and models that ground coaching and support intentional planning; tools and strategies to help you enact the framework through ongoing coaching cycles; and examples, vignettes, and transcripts to illustrate coaching in practice. Each chapter also includes opportunities for reflection and practice to guide you along the way.
Appropriate for school-and district-based coaches of all levels of experience, this book will enable you to provide a more targeted, proactive learning experience for ongoing teacher growth. With an instructional framework designed to empower teachers, increased teacher professional capacity can be expected for lasting impact on students, classrooms, schools, and communities.
Contents
Part I: Foundations of Coaching 1. Addressing Teacher Well-Being 2. Principles of Coaching 3. Research-based Coaching 4. Foundational Techniques of Coaching Part II: The CoachED Framework 5. An Introduction to the CoachED Framework 6. Coaching Values 7. Coaching Beliefs 8. Coaching Thinking 9. Coaching Behaviors 10. Integration of Approaches 11. Getting Started Appendix A Tools for Coaching Appendix B Coaching Transcripts Appendix C Key Terms
