Instructional Coaching

Catalog description

The goal of instructional coaching, a form of job-embedded professional learning, is improvement in teaching practices that lead to better student outcomes. Students will explore theories that shape the work of coaches and a variety of coaching models. The primary tasks and activities of coaches, how the work is structured, and knowledge, skills, and dispositions that coaches need to do their jobs effectively will be examined. Students will apply what they are learning about coaching by engaging in a mini-coaching cycle of goal setting, planning, observation, and reflection.