Full course description
Instructional Coaching: Essential Communication Skills
Course Details
Course Type:
- Self-Paced, Fully-Facilitated
- Cohort, Fully-Facilitated
Course Length: 10 Hours
Course Access:
- Self-Paced: Each course includes 45 days of interactive access. If you purchase multiple courses within a single concentration at the same time, your total access period will be extended (e.g., two courses = 90 days, three courses = 135 days, etc.).
Upon enrollment, your dashboard will initially display 45 days per course. By the next business day, your end date will be adjusted to reflect the correct total access period based on the number of courses purchased.
After your enrollment period ends, you will continue to have read-only access to your courses. - Cohort: Participants will follow a set start and end date, determined by their school district.
Course Description
This course explores how communication can make or break any relationship. Participants will examine and implement effective verbal and nonverbal communication strategies designed to enhance leadership, communication and listening skills, positive thinking, and support.
The course also focuses on the conferencing and facilitation skills that competent coaches require, as well as the importance of confidentiality agreements among coaches, teachers, and principals.
Course Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Describe conferencing, facilitation, presentation, and training best practices.
- Integrate effective communication techniques, including active listening, confirmatory paraphrasing, and positive phrasing.
- Evaluate the flow of verbal exchanges, on- or off-task behaviors, and types of feedback during a classroom observation.
- Compare various types of feedback and when to employ them.
- Summarize the models for defining communication and practicing confidentiality among stakeholders.
Guiding Questions
- How can effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills increase the impact of coaching?
- How can the essential communication skills of conferencing, facilitation, presentation, and training improve the coaching process?
- How can feedback and its delivery positively or negatively affect perceptions of a coach?
- How can a respectful and confidential partnership increase the success of an instructional coaching program?