Coaching for Significant and Sustained Change in the Classroom: (A 5-Step Instructional Coaching Model for Making Real Improvements)

Keeping educators' skills sharp in a constantly changing world can be a challenge. But instructional coaching provides a focused, one-on-one plan for improving professional practice and teacher performance. In Coaching for Significant and Sustained Change in the Classroom, author Tom Roy shows coaches and administrators how to build strong coaching programs and create positive change using a five-step instructional coaching model.

Move beyond teacher evaluations and classroom observations to establish a defined coaching program:

• Understand that changes in instructional practices are needed to overcome the challenges today's teachers face.
• Learn what successful coaching looks like and why coaching is the solution to getting effective professional development in the classroom.
• Study the five steps of the coaching cycle for teachers, and explore time-proven coaching methods and strategies.
• Measure the effectiveness of your current program by reviewing the elements of coaching programs that lead to teacher and student success.
• Receive tools and forms to help guide teacher reflection, support, and peer coaching, as well as respond to professional development needs.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Coaching and Change in Education

Chapter 2: The Coaching Cycle

Chapter 3: Methods and Techniques

Chapter 4: School and District Models

Chapter 5: Peer Coaching

Chapter 6: Program Supervision and Leadership

Epilogue

Appendix