
Coaching Cycles
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- Educational Leadership
Purpose of Instructional Coaching
Instructional coaching in EL Education schools increases the achievement and engagement of every student by bringing out the best performance of every teacher. Coaches use both student-centered and teacher-centered methods to help teachers improve the decisions they make about their instruction.
Most often, the EL school designer supports the school with developing or refining a coaching system and associated structures. In addition, the school designer provides school or district coaches with professional support and feedback.
Often, school designers provide direct coaching to a limited number of teachers. This practice can be effective for modeling coaching practices for site-based staff. However, the school must determine how it will build internal coaching capacity, since using a school designer as the primary coach is not sustainable over a long period of time.
Cornett, J. & Knight, J. (2008). Research on Coaching. http://www.instructionalcoach....
Knight, J. (2007). Instructional coaching: A partnership approach to improving instruction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Sweeney, D. (2011). Student-centered coaching. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
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