A Guide for Educational Coaching and Its effects on Student Achievement

Over the past decade instructional coaching has emerged as a powerful professional development strategy for teachers. This stems from teachers recognizing that the one-day professional development approaches return no results on teacher implementation or student learning. This guide will give you information on how educational coaching works within a school. The four aspects that this guide will offer you are: (1) A look at all four coaching models; (2) coaching models and implementation; (3) methods to measure the impact of coaching on student achievement and teaching practice; and (4) resources that can be used to gather data