Instructional Coaching Menu
Hungry for Learning? Pick Any Item Your Taste Buds Desire!
Menu
Pick anything you want on our menu. Maybe you want a light snack or dive in deep for a full course meal!
Appetizer
- Resource Locator: Search for ideas or resources for an upcoming lesson.
- Co-planning: Having trouble coming up with that killer lesson? Are you and your co-teacher needing a third mind to toss around ideas? Let's plan a lesson together!
- Differentiation Support: Help tailor your lesson to the needs of all through activities, movement, and so much more!
- Spot Coverage: Want to learn more from your colleagues, but don't want to lose your precious plan time? You are in luck. Allow me to cover your class while you observe others.
Entrees
- Classroom Assistant: Help assist in your classroom as another set of hands and eyes.
- Team Teaching: Ever wish you had another teacher in the room for that one class? Fear no more! Plan a lesson together and co-teach it using one of the many co-teaching strategies.
- Model a Lesson: Want to see a certain instructional strategy in the works, but too nervous to try it out? Let me be the guinea pig!
- Data Analyzer: Look over data from a formative/common assessment and make practical instructional decisions from that data.
- Coaching: Sign up for a formal coaching session. As peers, we will work together to help improve your practice. Together, we will learn from one another and implement strategies that will guarantee student achievement!
Dessert
- Reflection: After a classroom observation, meet to debrief and reflect on student learning. Enhance that observation by using video to record.
- Brainstorming Session: Bounce ideas off of each other until we reach the perfect solution for your students!
- Active Listener: Need to talk? I am here for you. Structured time for me to listen to your needs in a confidential setting.
- Technology Support: Need ideas or help incorporating technology for best instructional practice? If so, allow me to help! Check out my YouTube Channel for some tutorial videos on some effective classroom technology support!
KEEP CALM and Call an INSTRUCTIONAL COACH!
The Coaching Cycle
"Coaching can be viewed as a negative word sometimes. Coaching can be defined as a human development process that involves structured, focused interaction, and the use of appropriate strategies, tools, and techniques to promote desirable and sustainable change for the benefit of the stakeholders." (van Nieuwerburgh, 2012)
More than that, coaching is an EQUITABLE partnership between two EQUALS! I am a teacher just like you, and all I want to do is offer my support :)
Mike Norris
Instructional Coach
Central Middle School
Tinley Park, IL
Email: mnorris@district146.org
Website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzBsN1Ip-u04GTKZTow-8Rg
Location: 18146 Oak Park Ave, Tinley Park, IL 60477, United States
Phone: (708) 614-4510
Twitter: @CMSTeacherCoach