Foundations of Instructional Coaching

Course Overview

This course is designed to create a shared understanding of instructional coaching as an evidence-based, job-embedded professional learning strategy focused on improved student learning and growth. Planning for instructional coaching is based on knowing the coaching context, choosing appropriate approaches, and defining roles.

This course also fosters an understanding of the essential coaching components of building and sustaining trusting and supportive relationships, fostering professional learning cycles, and using data to focus the coaching process.

Essential Coaching Components Explored

• Context & Roles: Analyzing your unique local coaching context to set clear boundaries and operational definitions.
• Trusting Relationships: Strategies for actively building and sustaining supportive, non-evaluative peer dynamics.
• Learning Cycles: Facilitating job-embedded professional learning structures that respect adult learning styles.
• Data Focus: Relying on objective metrics to direct and constantly refine the overarching coaching process.

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