Leadership Coaching
In Chapter 8: Leadership Coaching, Karla Reiss discusses the value of coaching as embodying the best components of professional development. She presents the view that coaching is personalised to the… Read more »
Differentiated Coaching: The Coaching Plan
The final step in differentiated coaching is to create a coaching plan. An information gathering sheet can be completed in any order to record the coaching styles and strategies that the… Read more »
Differentiated Coaching: Identifying the Problem
After steps one and two, it’s time to identify the problem that the teacher wants to solve. Kise cautions that the coach may need to help the teacher identify the… Read more »
Differentiated Coaching: Identifying Teacher Beliefs
The second step in differentiated coaching, after hypothesizing personality type, is identifying teacher beliefs. Kise gives evidence in this section that teachers do not examine practices that align with their… Read more »
Differentiated Coaching: Hypothesizing Personality Type
Mayers-Briggs Type Indicator determines a person’s personality type along four axes. Introversion versus Extroversion: Introverts get energy from time alone while extroverts get energy from other people. Sensing versus Intuition:… Read more »
Differentiated Coaching
Chapter 7 by Jane A. G. Kise is called Differentiated Coaching, and looks at how to use personality types to determine the coaching approach to use with a teacher. This… Read more »
Content Coaching: Preconference, Lesson Enactment and Postconference
The authors present content coaching as an inquiry undertaken jointly by the teacher and the coach. One of the steps is the preconference which clarifies what the goals of the… Read more »
Issues in Lesson Design
Lucy West presents the complexity of lesson design in her chapter on Content Coaching. She shares her exploration of her own successful coaching practice, and her work with colleagues, university… Read more »
The Environment of Content Coaching
The goal of content coaching is to improve student learning, by making instruction more effective. This is done though the mindful consideration of lesson design, teaching and assessment. There are… Read more »
Content Coaching: Principles of Learning
Content coaching recognizes that teaching can be improved with effort, and applies principles of learning in building professional capacity. The four principles presented in this chapter are accountable talk, self-management… Read more »