Instructional coaching : a partnership approach to improving instruction / Jim Knight.

Instructional coaching : a partnership approach to improving instruction /

Instructional coaching focuses on research-based strategies that can improve a teacher's practice the most. This book offers coaching skills essential to instructional coaches: listening, observing, modeling, and collaborating; plus guidance for leveraging instructional interventions for effect...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Knight, Jim
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, CA : NSDC : Corwin Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Teachers > In-service training > United States.
Teacher effectiveness > United States.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Why coaching?
  • What does coaching look like?
  • What is the partnership philosophy?
  • Partnership communication : creating learning conversations
  • Getting teachers on board and finding a starting point
  • Modeling, observing, and collaboratively exploring data
  • Focusing on the big four : behavior, content, knowledge, direct instruction, and formative assessment
  • How coaches can spread knowledge
  • Coaches as leaders of change
  • Resource : instructional coach's tool kit.

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