Full course description
Instructional Coaching
Foundations of Coaching
- Course Type: Self-Paced, Fully-Facilitated
- Course Length: 10 Hours
- Course Access: Participants have 45 days from the date of enrollment to complete the course
This professional development course is designed for current and aspiring instructional coaches. Instructional coaches play a vital role in bringing evidence-based practices into classrooms by collaborating with teachers and school leaders.
This course explores the coach’s role in classroom management, content enhancement, instruction, and assessment for learning. The fundamentals for sustaining a successful coaching program include representing the coach’s role to staff, building trusting relationships, participating in ongoing training, garnering support from administrators, and providing confidential, non-evaluative job-embedded professional development for teachers.
Course Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Explain the role of an instructional coach.
- Develop supportive, confidential, and trustworthy interpersonal relationships with teachers.
- Describe the value of the principal/coach relationship.
- Facilitate school-based, high-quality professional development.
- Apply observation, modeling, and co-teaching best practices.
- Evaluate teacher and learner data to determine areas for improvement.
Guiding Questions
- How can instructional coaching change practice and improve instruction?
- How can administrative support boost coaching’s impact?
- How can instructional coach/coachee participation in job-embedded professional development positively impact teachers and students?
- How do instructional coaches build teacher capacity for selecting, implementing, and evaluating the impact of effective teaching strategies, as well as foster teacher reflection?