Outcomes of training:
Coaches will:
Understand how change impacts adult learners.
- Understand Concerns-Based Adoption Model
- Use CBAM to design interventions to address various concernsteachers express about change
- Gain strategies to handle resistance to change
- Understand the fundamental needs of adult learners
Develop a deep understanding of the multiple roles of coaches.
- Identify the multiple roles of coaches
- Identify the knowledge and skills necessary in each role
- Identify and avoid challenges associated with each role
Understand how to contract with their principals and teachers regarding services to improve teaching and learning.
- Define contracting
- Know areas about which to contract
- Know how to conduct contracting conversations
- Practice contracting with case-based scenarios
Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to support teachers in the role of classroom supporter including how to maximize demonstration lessons, co-teaching, and observing and giving feedback.
- Understand the continuum of classroom supporter roles
- Understand the challenges of each point along the continuum
- Gain the knowledge, skills, and protocols for each position along the classroom supporter continuum
- Acquire multiple classroom data-gathering tools
- Practice reflection conferences to debrief classroom observations
- Practice planning conferences to plan classroom observations
Use data to facilitate decisions related to identifying, working on, and monitoring team and individual professional learning goals for student learning.
- Analyze and interpret data about student achievement to identify target areas, root causes
- Support teachers in developing appropriate classroom-based interventions to improve student learning
Build relationship skills to develop trusting relationships.
- Differentiate between trusting and trustworthiness
- Identify strategies for building and sustaining trust
- Understand the different stages of community/team development
Acquire coaching behaviors to support their work with individual and teams of teachers.
- Examine a continuum of coaching behaviors
- Use listening as the foundation for all coaching practices
- Use the tense of conversations to focus actions on future improvement
- Examine alternatives to giving advice
Select from among multiple professional learning designs to facilitate learning for teachers.
- Know multiple designs for professional learning and their appropriate use
- Select from among the designs for professional learning related to school improvement goals
- Know the standards for professional development and use them in guiding the design, implementation, and evaluation of professional learning
Facilitate teacher-learning teams to promote authentic collaboration about improving teaching and learning.
- Establish structures for collaborative teamwork
- Use appropriate protocols and strategies to accomplish teamwork
- Use basic facilitation and meeting skills to maintain a trusting, safe environment for teacher interaction
Professional Development for Instructional Coaches will include:
- Change process
- Team Building
- Leadership training
- Trust/Relationship Building
- Adult Learning
- Professional Development Standards/Professional Learning Designs
- Facilitation/Meeting Skills
- Dealing with Resistance
- Relationships/Contracting with Principals (training with principals)
- Confidentiality
- Data Analysis
- Individual Coaching/Team Coaching
- Coaching skills and strategies
- Fierce Conversations
- Professional Learning Communities/Protocols for team work
- Accountability
- Sustainability