Coaching Cycles
What does a coaching cycle look like?
Instructional Coach of Digital Age Learning (iDAL)
When asked, "what do you do?" I have an elevator speech with a lot of buzz words:
I work in partnership with teacher to grow their implementation of best practice. I don't evaluate or make judgements. Our goal is the same. Student growth. Together, we analyze student work, identify trends, and make instructional decisions based on student data.
A Typical Coaching Cycle
The most important piece of a coaching cycle is the reason why the cycle exists. The students. A cycle begins with a student goal. What do we want our students to be able to do? Once a goal is set, we set a 4-6 week plan.
Typical flow of a cycle includes the following parts:
- Look at student data/work
- Set a learning target
- Set initial meeting to plan cycle
- Weekly conversations to look at data and set next steps
- Plan what each lesson will look like
- Assess students
- Compare data
- Reflect
- Share
Coaching Cycle Ideas
- I want my students to be able to make reasonable claims and support them with evidence.
- I want my students to be able to us dialogue correctly.
- I want my students to be able to make inferences about a character.
- I want my students to be able to write a persuasive argument.
- I want my students to spell multi-syllable words with double consonants correctly.
- I want my students to be able to ask and answer questions effectively.
- I want my students to write effective leads in an informational writing piece.
- I want my students to be able to recall numbers that make 10 quickly.
- I want my students to be able to draw conclusions from their observations.
- I want my students to be able to compare fractions.
- I want my students to be able to add and subtract decimals.
- I want my students to.....