This article was taken from Dr. Robert Marzano's book "Coaching in the Classroom. He provides instructional coaches with tips that will help them reach and relate to their teachers that they are coaching. Among the tips included in this article are providing feedback, creating trust, emphasizing growth and ways helping teachers move through the development stages of coaching from beginning all the way to advanced.

This article is by a well known researcher named Jim Knight. The purpose of this article is to describe what good instructional coaches should be doing when they are working with a teacher. Jim includes seven characteristics for "partnership" in his article because he believes that there should be a partnership between the coach and the teacher because it creates a positive environment that makes learning and working together pleasant and beneficial. The seven elements of this partnership are choice, equality, voice, reflection, reciprocity, dialogue and praxis. The article explains what each element means and then deaxribes some more common characteristics of what a good coach should be doing such as providing feedback and asking questions.

This video is focusing on the value that instructional coaching can have in the classroom. It focuses on how instructional coaches can help teachers by pointing out what worked well and giving positive criticism and helpful tips on what could help he next class be better. The video make sure it obvious that the coach is not in the classroom to put the teacher down or be completely negative, but to help the teacher see things that he/she may not have noticed before. Instructional coaches should be seen as someone who is helping teachers continue learning and growing in their field and not as someone scary.

This article was written by a teacher named Elena Aguilar. This article discusses several important tooics that every coach needs to know about coaching teachers. Some of the topics include making sure the purpose of h coaching is clear to the principal, what coaching involves and that coaches still need professional development and training. This article states that coaching is difficult and that there are many things you will encounter that you were not prepared for. The tips and advice the author gives makes it easier to understand what instructional coaching is about.