Student-Centered Coaching

What are your hopes and dreams for coaching this year?

Increasing Participation in Coaching Cycles

Start with the 'Why'

TedTalk of Simon Sinek

Reflections

• Beliefs about coaching
• Messaging coaching
• Status of coaching across teachers and teams

Setting Rigorous Goals for Coaching Cycles

Qualities of Effective Goals

• Student-centered
• Based on standards
• Not about a product or assessment
• Just right in scope
• RIGOROUS

Classroom Management

• Whose goal is it?
• If it's the coaches idea, then embed it into the coaching cycle
• If it's the teacher's idea, the provide some intensive support outside of a coaching cycle

Emotional Engagement:
based on relationships

Behavioral Engagement:
based on consequences

Intellectual Engagement:
based on a desire to know more

How do we structure coaching that is intellectually engaging to students?

Webb's Depth of Knowledge

• Recall and reproduction
• Basic skills and concepts
• Strategic thinking and reasoning
• Extended thinking

Let's Practice

• Choose a few goals to examine on the list.
• Ask if they address a strategy/ activity/assessment or if they are about learning.
• Determine the DOK level.
• Rewrite a few of the examples.

What are your next steps?