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what instructional coaches should do to foster powerful improvements in teaching
Jim Knight.
xviii, 266 pages
illustrations, forms.
Contents: 1. What does it mean to improve? : what is instructional coaching? ; three approaches to coaching ; deep learning, deep coaching -- 2. Identify : getting a clear picture of reality : getting a clear picture of current reality ; using video to get a clear picture of reality ; learning from students ; putting it all together -- 3. Questions to identify a peers goal : PEERS goals ; questions to identify a PEERS goal ; the identify questions -- 4. Learn : describing teaching strategies ; instructional playbooks ; modeling teaching strategies -- 5. Improve : the improve stage of the impact cycle ; step 1 : confirm direction ; step 2 : review progress ; step 3 : invent improvements ; step 4 : plan next actions -- Instructional coaches' toolkit : strategies for enrolling teachers ; data-gathering tools ; instructional playbook ; strategies for assessing student attitude -- Appendix : learn-design research : development of the impact cycle ; lean-design research ; interviews.
Summary: This book builds on Jim Knight's groundbreaking instructional coaching work with an original coaching cycle model that has been implemented and field tested in hundreds of schools with great success.