Everyday Instructional Coaching

Instructional coaches play a crucial role in helping educators meet the ever-changing demands placed on teaching and learning. With this practical guide, coaches will discover seven drivers they can use to best support teachers in their daily work: (1) collaboration, (2) transparency, (3) inquiry, (4) discourse, (5) reverberation, (6) sincerity, and (7) influence. Each chapter offers instructional coaching strategies, research, and examples to help readers evaluate, refine, and implement these drivers in their educational coaching practices.

Learn daily practices for instructional coaching that supports teachers and effective teaching methods:

• Explore the seven daily drivers necessary to become a more effective instructional coach.
• Gain strategies to strengthen relationships and improve outcomes with teachers and teacher teams.
• Access tools to help self-assess and adjust daily coaching practices.
• Understand the sociocultural psychology and education research that support the seven daily drivers.
• Learn approaches you can use to keep pace with the demands on today's educators, coaches, and instructional leaders.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Collaboration
Chapter 2: Transparency
Chapter 3: Inquiry
Chapter 4: Discourse
Chapter 5: Reverberation
Chapter 6: Sincerity
Chapter 7: Influence
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index