Differentiated Mentoring and Coaching in Education
Differentiated Mentoring and Coaching in Education

Author: Vicki S. Collet

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0807767182

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"This book is a guide for coaches' own development in the personalized, relational work of coaching. The five coaching moves presented in the Gradual Increase of Responsibility (GIR) Model for Mentoring and Coaching describe differentiated interactions between coaches and teachers: how they happen and how they change. Preservice and inservice teachers' needs and capacities change over time. Like their students, teachers benefit when support is personalized. The GIR model includes five coaching interactions that vary incrementally in level of support. This book guides mentors and coaches in refining the approaches they use to provide differentiated support, from preservice teacher to expert practitioner"--

Differentiated Coaching
Differentiated Coaching

Author: Jane A. G. Kise

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2017-05-23

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 150634321X

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Differentiate your coaching practice to meet the needs of every teacher! Jane Kise takes you on a journey into differentiated coaching with a strength-based framework for understanding, appreciating, and working with people who may think differently from you. Through an online self-assessment tool, you will discover how your strengths and beliefs influence your coaching practice. Through examples, case studies, and reflection exercises, you will understand how to: Tailor your coaching practices to meet the needs of each educator Increase teacher willingness to implement new skills in their classrooms Anticipate patterns of resistance and adjust both the content and delivery of professional development

Score to Soar
Score to Soar

Author: John F. Eller

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Published: 2015-03-24

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1936763451

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Discover how to guide and enhance the job performance of teachers in your school or district. The authors share highly practical strategies for providing teachers meaningful feedback and encouraging their improvement. You’ll discover how to evaluate teacher effectiveness, use multiple forms of data for evaluation, and communicate evaluation findings to teachers in a way that fosters their professional growth.

Differentiated Mentoring and Coaching in Education
Differentiated Mentoring and Coaching in Education

Author: Vicki S. Collet

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0807781142

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Books abound to guide mentoring and coaching for preservice and inservice teachers’ professional learning. However, none fully account for the differences among teachers in experience and expertise and how these factors change over time. This book addresses this need by presenting a dynamic model for teacher/coach interactions, the Gradual Increase of Responsibility (GIR) model for mentoring and coaching. Like students, teachers benefit when support is personalized. The GIR model includes five coaching moves that are selectively used to match support to need. This book guides mentors and coaches in refining their approaches, helping them provide differentiated support to teachers from a range of grade levels, academic areas, contexts, and levels of experience. As strains on teachers escalate, mentoring and coaching using the GIR model is an effective, energizing approach to prepare, sustain, and retain teachers and increase their instructional effectiveness. Book Features A conceptually simple model that expands upon personalized development in the relational work of coaching. Five coaching interactions that vary incrementally in level of support.Callout boxes with helpful questions, lists, and procedures, plus online resources for additional support. Examples that illustrate how to use the GIR model with teachers from preservice to the expert practitioner. “Reflect and Respond” prompts in each chapter encourage contemplation of the concepts and support application.

Blended Coaching
Blended Coaching

Author: Gary Bloom

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2005-06-01

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1452207569

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Support new and veteran principals through coaching-based professional development! How can a coach support a school leader in mastering the professional and emotional challenges of school leadership in a manner that has a positive impact on students? This book provides practical skills and strategies for leadership coaching explicitly tied to the needs of principals and other school leaders. An indispensable resource for improving principal retention, teacher satisfaction and student achievement, this ready reference contains: Real-life examples Reflective prompts Practical exercises Comprehensive resources, including worksheets, sample forms, and assessments

The Art of Coaching
The Art of Coaching

Author: Elena Aguilar

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-02-22

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1118421027

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Hands-on resources for new and seasoned school coaches This practical resource offers the foundational skills and tools needed by new coaching educators, as well as presenting an overview of the knowledge and theory base behind the practice. Established coaches will find numerous ways to deepen and refine their coaching practice. Principals and others who incorporate coaching strategies into their work will also find a wealth of resources. Aguilar offers a model for transformational coaching which could be implemented as professional development in schools or districts anywhere. Although she addresses the needs of adult learners, her model maintains a student-centered focus, with a specific lens on addressing equity issues in schools. Offers a practical resource for school coaches, principals, district leaders, and other administrators Presents a transformational coaching model which addresses systems change Pays explicit attention to surfacing and interrupting inequities in schools The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation offers a compendium of school coaching ideas, the book's explicit, user-friendly structure enhances the ability to access the information.

Differentiated Instructional Strategies Professional Learning Guide
Differentiated Instructional Strategies Professional Learning Guide

Author: Gayle H. Gregory

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2013-06-25

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1452291632

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Support differentiated instruction in every classroom with this updated expert guide! Keeping up with differentiated instruction (DI) developments can be hard, but you’ll stay on track with this updated guide. The official companion book to the bestselling Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn’t Fit All, this workshop-friendly resource offers step-by-step training activities for job-embedded professional development, plus guidelines tailored for both small study groups and larger staff development meetings. This new edition of Differentiated Instructional Strategies in Practice: Training, Implementation, and Supervision has been revised to include new strategies and a Common Core lesson-planning template. This professional learning guide remains the ideal accompaniment. Inside you’ll find • Guidelines for providing individualized support and mentoring • Suggestions for evaluation, coaching, observation, and supervision of DI practices • Research-based responses to staff members’ concerns about change • Implementation and evaluation tools to measure schoolwide progress • Resources for staff developers and principals implementing large-scale differentiation initiatives No differentiated classroom is complete without Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn’t Fit All—and no administrative office is complete without its dedicated book study guide. Put the two together and make a successful transition to brain-friendly differentiated classrooms throughout your school. Praise for the previous edition: "An excellent resource for understanding the key concepts and strategies of differentiated instruction. Participants in training based on this curriculum will experience the instructional strategies firsthand, facilitating their application in the classroom." —Maria Timmons Flores, Assistant Professor Lewis & Clark College "The book′s major strengths are its fluency, readability, and connection of theory and practice. The activities are doable and will make sense to a classroom teacher." —Belinda G. Gimbert, Coordinator, Transition to Teaching Program Newport News Public Schools, VA

Coaching
Coaching

Author: Jim Knight

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2021-03-08

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1452298424

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This easy-to-read resource describes several popular approaches to coaching, including literacy coaching, cognitive coaching, instructional coaching, content-focused coaching, and classroom-management coaching, and features contributions from leaders in each field.

Mentors in the Making
Mentors in the Making

Author: Betty Achinstein

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780807746356

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In response to a growing interest in mentoring and new teacher induction, the authors offer a unique view of developing quality mentors. Drawing on empirical research, practitioner action inquiry, and field-tested practices from induction programs, they explore effective mentoring in diverse educational contexts. With richly contextualized and thoughtfully analyzed excerpts from actual mentoring conversations and powerful examples of practice, the volume offers educators, researchers, and policymakers a reform-minded vision of the future of mentoring. Challenging conventional wisdom, this essential resource: Argues that mentors are not born, but developed through conscious, deliberate, ongoing learning; Provides a needed link between research and practice in the field of new teacher mentoring, to define a knowledge base for effective mentoring; Documents induction and mentoring practices that focus new teachers on individual learners, equity-oriented curriculum and pedagogy, and the educator's role in reforming school culture; Highlights problems and complexities of enacting mentor knowledge and learning in diverse contexts.