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What is instructional coaching?
Instructional coaching is:
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Highly individualized, job-embedded professional development
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Founded on trust
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Observation based
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Developmental and growth- oriented
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Supportive
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Confidential
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Differentiated and based on professional goals and individual growth
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Instructional coaching is NOT:
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Evaluative
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A means of comparing teachers' skill or efficacy levels
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About 'fixing someone'
Source: New Teacher Center, 2015
Lindsay Seydel
PK-6 Reading Coach
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What you might see:
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Observing classrooms
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Designing appropriate instructional strategies
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Supporting universal core
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Analyzing literacy data/student work
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Supporting grade-level PLCs
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Co-teaching
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Facilitating PD
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Assisting with intervention design
Dana Williams
PK-12 Personalized Learning/STEAM Integration Coach
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What you might see:
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Classroom observations
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Small group, individual collaboration
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Designing appropriate instructional strategies
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Co-teaching
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Facilitating PD
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Guiding implementation of STEAM related programming and technology
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Integration and facilitation of Project-Based Learning
Jessica Taylor
5-12 Assessment/Data Coach
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What you might see:
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Classroom observations
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Small group, individual collaboratio
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Analysis of student learning (classroom & standardized)
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Designing appropriate instructional strategies
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Co-teaching
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Facilitating PD
