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Please Note:
Based on more than twenty years of research conducted by Jim Knight and researchers at The Instructional Coaching Group, this course is intended to give new coaches the essential knowledge they need to understand their role and get started.
Who should enroll in this intensive workshop?
This workshop has been created for educators who are just starting out as instructional coaches, as well as those who have limited experience with Jim Knight’s instructional coaching model.
Course Structure
Weekly 60-minute Zoom session + 30 minutes of Q&A
This intensive workshop, Instructional Coaching: An Introduction, runs for eight weeks. Each week Jim Knight will give an interactive one-hour presentation on one or more of the topics listed below.
Topics To Be Covered:
- How to enroll teachers in coaching
- How to partner effectively with your principal
- Discuss your role with your principal
- Determining what should and should not be shared with administrators
- Understanding your role and how to describe it
- Understanding and successfully addressing teacher resistance through the partnership principles
- Planning your coaching day
- Documenting what you do
- Helping teachers use video and other methods to get a clear picture of reality
- Identifying the highest-impact teaching strategies teachers can use to hit goals
- How to set goals with teachers
- What a typical goal might look like
- How to explain teaching strategies
- How to ensure teachers see what strategies look like in action
- How to gather data and what data to gather
Course Schedule
October 11, 2022 – November 28, 2022
Meets mostly on Mondays 2:30pm – 4:00pm CST
- October 11
- October 17
- October 24
- October 31
- November 8
- November 14
- November 21
- November 28
Additional Information
All participants will receive a course workbook packed with tools that they will need to succeed as Instructional coaches.
If you do not receive an email containing course information at least 1 day prior to the event, please contact brooke@instructionalcoaching.com.