by Matthew Kelly | Jun 14, 2019 | Coaching Videos, Instructional Coaching, Uncategorized |
How is an instructional coach different from any other kind of coach? There are multiple approaches to coaching that can provide varying benefits, but they generally fall into two categories: Facilitative coaching Works from the assumption that the teacher already...
by Matthew Kelly | Jun 6, 2019 | Instructional Coaching, Teaching Strategies, Uncategorized |
Receiving new information can be a bit overwhelming. In the context of instructional coaching, it can feel especially intense for teachers because there are often many factors at play: the complexity of their students’ needs, building a working relationship with the...
by Matthew Kelly | May 24, 2019 | Instructional Coaching, Student Learning, Teaching Strategies, Uncategorized |
Since its release in 2009, John Hattie’s Visible Learning has become one of the most influential forces in education, earning rave reviews upon publication and sparking the interest of educators worldwide. According to Hattie, Visible Learning gives teachers the...
by Sharon Thomas | Nov 1, 2018 | Instructional Coaching |
Over the next 7 weeks, the Radical Learners blog will examine Jim Knight’s 7 Success Factors for Effective Coaching Programs. These success factors (grounded in more than 20 years of research) are also the frame for ICG’s certification program for instructional...
by Jim Knight | May 24, 2018 | Instructional Coaching |
In my work, I meet a lot of coaches who are struggling because they can’t seem to fit what they do into their model for coaching. Sometimes this conflict arises because coaches have learned to be facilitative coaches when they are expected to be dialogical coaches. ...
by Jim Knight | May 17, 2018 | Instructional Coaching |
Conversations will almost always fail when they involve what Michael Fullan refers to as judgmentalism. Fullan writes, “One of the ways not to develop capacity is through criticism, punitive consequences, or what I more comprehensively call judgementalism....
