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Coaches' leadership skills that communicate trust building will increase teacher vulnerability and therefore teacher growth.

"Instructional coach David Ginsburg illustrates a key coaching skill: helping teachers apply feedback from a specific context to their practice in general. This clip also illustrates the importance of providing students clear expectations and procedures."

"Coaching the Threads of Reading is the "how to" book that explores specifically what skills and strategies coaches should be helping teachers develop in K-12 classrooms. Not only does the book describe what effective reading instruction looks like at all levels from primary through high school, but it provides important suggestions on how to help teachers focus instruction and gradually move to independence and instructional self-confidence."

Great video! I followed the link at the end of the video to the Partnership for 21st Century Skills website and found some great gems there.The image that was the most interesting was this one: We are doing a lot of work in our province and division around figuring out "supports and services" for students as part of this movement towards a more inclusive education system. I thought the pools around the bottom of the rainbow summed up really nicely the supports and services that we need to provide for all students in our schools. I feel like an image like this gets me a bit closer to figuring out what inclusive education means to me.

This is a group for instructional coaches, teacher mentors, and anyone in a teacher mentoring role. Members: 7 Latest Activity: May 16 Started by Carole Fuller. Last reply by Scott H Snyder May 16. 0 Likes I coach teachers of adult students, mostly teaching ESL but also Workforce content areas such as computer skills.

In this video Steve Barkley discusses the two beliefs that underscore coaching. The first is that educators should be observed once a week and receive feedback. The second is that the most skilled educators should be coached the most.

Instructional coaches are on-site professional developers who teach educators how to use proven instructional methods. To be successful in this role, coaches must be skilled in a variety of roles, including public relations guru, communicator extraordinaire, master organizer and, of course, expert educator.

Steve Barkley's concept of "backwards planning" shifts the process of teaching practices, coaching, and professional staff development in significant and comprehensive ways. Steve's research suggests that teachers don't cause student achievement; students do, when armed with the right learning behaviors taught and modeled by others. From those behaviors, they become lifelong learners. Receive guidance and insights into specific coaching skills, questioning strategies, and ways to work with principals. The result ensures that teachers are fully supported in the highly complex and challenging world of education.

What does an instructional coach do? Look at "instruction"-the act, process, or art of imparting knowledge and skill. Look at "coach"-to teach.

* What new teachers want in their induction programs is "experienced colleagues who will take their daily dilemmas seriously, watch them teach and provide feedback, help them teach and provide feedback, help them develop instructional strategies, model skilled teaching, and share insights about students' work" (Johnson & Kardos 2002).