Jim Knight – Instructional Coaching

Instructional coaching, a research-based, job-embedded approach to instructional intervention, provides the assistance and encouragement necessary to implement new programs that improve student learning. The product of more than a decade of study, this approach to professional development has been proven to help schools respond to the pressures of accountability and reform.

Experienced trainer, developer, and researcher Jim Knight describes the “nuts and bolts” of instructional coaching and explains the essentials skills that instructional coaches need, including getting teachers on board, providing model lessons, observing teachers, and engaging in reflective conversations. This interactive online course engages coaches, aspiring coaches, staff developers, trainers, teacher leaders, principals, and other educators who work with coaches and oversee coaching programs through a variety of activities and exercises.

March 1, 2012
June 1, 2012
Sept 1, 2012
Dec 1, 2012

12 Self-Paced Modules Cover:

• The Partnership Approach
• Partnership Principles
• Coaching Session Observation
• Partnership Learning Structure
• Enroll and Identify
• The Big Four
• Explain, Mediate, and Model
• Observe, Explore, and Refine
• Partnership Communication
• Communication Interference
• Addressing Change
• Partnership Leadership