"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."
"Empowering questions can help coaches identify a teacher's agenda - what is important to the teacher. Empowering questions reveal a teacher's value system and help the coach understand what makes the teacher tick. Coaches develop credibility when their feedback continually relates to what an individual teacher values. "
* 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).