What is the Role of the Teaching and Learning Coach?

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What is the Role of the Teaching and Learning
Coach?
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Coaching IS

• To convey a valued person from where he or she
  is to where he or she wants to be
• Evered,Rogers D. and James C.Selma ,1989 Coaching
  and the Art of Management. Organizational
  Dynamics, 18

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• Teaching and Learning Coaches will work
  collaboratively to build the capacity of teachers
  in schools to support improvement in student
  learning outcomes.

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Why Coaching?

• Research suggests coaching has the most profound
  and sustained impact on teaching practice.

TRAINING STEPS Knowledge Mastery Skill Acquisition Classroom Application
Theory (Lecture) Middle/high Low Very low 10
Demonstration High Low/middle Very low 10
Practice High High Very low 10
Feedback and Coaching High High High 80
Research by Bruce Joyce and Beverly Showers.
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What is Coaching?

• Improving teaching learning outcomes
• Promoting the exchange of ideas through
  collaborative problem solving
• Another opportunity for professional dialogue
• Supporting teachers to reflect deeply about their
  practice
• Learning together

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Coaching IS

• A teacher and coach having the opportunity and
  time to discuss, observe and reflect on one
  aspect of teaching practice
• Reaffirming strengths in teaching
• Sharing good practice
• Providing opportunity for professional discussion
• Promoting the exchange of good ideas and
  resources
• Breaking down isolation
• Sharing the demands of the job
• A confidential process

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What Coaching Is NOT

• Mentoring
• Inspection
• Teacher Appraisal

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