Instructional coaches collaborate with teachers to enhance teaching and promote student success. This involves working together to assess the current situation, establish goals, develop teaching strategies, monitor progress, and troubleshoot when needed.
What is Instructional Coaching?
Providing Students Better Learning, Better Lives
Instructional coaches partner with teachers to help them improve teaching and learning so students are more successful. To do this, coaches collaborate with teachers to get a clear picture of current reality, identify goals, pick teaching strategies to meet the goals, monitor progress, and problem-solve until they reach their goals.
Why Instructional Coaching?
Many people in education wonder, “What is instructional coaching?” The answer is that it’s a system that helps support teachers and, in turn, helps support students. Our goal is to help educators build and maintain successful and long-term coaching programs that lead to increased teacher satisfaction and retention.
Approaching Professional Development for Lasting Change
40% of teachers leave the profession in less than 5 years, and this turnover rate directly impacts student achievement in school, which has lifelong impacts on those students. Schools can avoid these hardships by providing better learning opportunities for their staff and ensuring they have the foundation and support in place for successful careers.
Get Connected with ICG
We help organizations learn and implement successful coaching programs through workshops, coaching,
Frequently Asked Questions
We developed the ICG certification process to help define what instructional coaching is, how to make it most effective, and to set a benchmark for any aspiring instructional coach. Organizations are increasingly employing coaches without a clear understanding of what effective coaching is. ICG certification ensures coaches know how to have a positive impact on their schools.
Instructional coaches should have a background in education; many instructional coaches start as teachers or administrators. However, at ICG, we advocate that the instructional coach should be a separate, defined role in the school system.
We host workshops and institutes to help coaches, teachers, and administrators learn and implement the factors, habits, and strategies they need to succeed. ICG’s trained consultants are available to meet with districts to help create plans for developing and supporting highly effective coaching programs.
Yes! We offer many of our workshops virtually if bringing ICG to your school isn’t ideal.