by Jim Knight and Matthew Kelly | Oct 29, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Creative work can be extremely fulfilling, but it also takes a lot of time and dedicated focus. The right music can inspire you, facilitate the momentum of your work, and even help keep you on task. Since I began working with ICG, Jim Knight and I have had an ongoing...
by Jim Knight | Oct 24, 2019 | Instructional Coaching, Uncategorized |
For the past few years, I’ve been asking people for their metaphor for coaching, and I’ve heard a number of different suggestions, including a sherpa, sour dough yeast, and the gobstopper that Violet eats in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Two metaphors have been...
by Jim Knight | Oct 22, 2019 | Instructional Coaching, Professional Learning, Self-Coaching, Uncategorized |
For many reasons, judging people can feel good. Saying something like, “I can’t believe they wore that!” or, “What’s wrong with these administrators?” or, “What are these kids thinking?” could be an attempt to boost our own ego, to make ourselves feel less inept, or...
by Jim Knight | Oct 17, 2019 | Improving Instruction, Self-Coaching, Uncategorized |
Robert Sutton’s Good Boss, Bad Boss examines the differences between being a bad or good boss, but those distinctions can also serve as extremely useful parallels for bad or good teaching. In particular, there are five ideas in Sutton’s work that can help foster a...
by Chris Munro | Sep 24, 2019 | Instructional Coaching, Uncategorized |
Today’s guest author, Chris Munro, is a director with Growth Coaching International, the leading provider of coaching professional development in Australia and New Zealand for nearly two decades. Instructional Coaching Group and Growth Coaching International have...
by Matthew Kelly | Sep 17, 2019 | Improving Instruction, Partnership Principles, Student Learning, Uncategorized |
All of ICG’s work is based in partnership and dialogue. Our research supports our belief that recognizing the learner as an equal is essential for true learning to take place, and much of our approach to coaching is indebted to the innovative ideas on dialogical...
