I often
compare coaching both teachers and leaders to coaching Olympic athletes: you can't run the 100 meter dash for them, you can't practice the race for them.
Not exact matches
The increase in student achievement from
coaching is on par with the gain researchers typically see from students of a veteran
teacher with five to 10 years of experience
compared to a novice
teacher.
Children whose
teachers had a moderate amount of training and
coaching from RCCP and who taught many lessons showed significantly slower growth in aggression - related processes and less of a decrease in competence - related processes,
compared to children whose
teachers taught few or no lessons.
While the trends were provocative, with half the
teachers in the most effective schools preferring
coaching compared to about a quarter of
teachers in the moderately and least effective schools, the ANOVAs on preferred interaction styles by school effectiveness level were not statistically significant —
coaching, F (2, 67) = 2.32, p >.05; telling, F (2, 67) = 2.01, p >.05; or recitation, F (2, 67) =.17 (see Table 11).
Effective
teachers are often
compared to
coaches.
The increase in student achievement from
coaching is on par with the gain researchers typically see from students of a veteran
teacher with five to 10 years of experience
compared to a novice
teacher.
In fact, gains seen from high - quality instructional
coaching were equivalent to the gains seen in
teacher experience learned over five to 10 years (as
compared to a first year
teacher).
When
compared to other common forms of
teacher professional development, such as one - day workshops,
coaching is an exciting possibility because it embodies two essential aspects of effective professional development: It is ongoing and located in the context of
teachers» daily work (Hawley & Valli, 1999).
Like
Coach Carol,
Coach Duane asked
teachers to consider why students struggled with
comparing unit rates.
Once ECE program leaders know how they
compare and where they need to improve, they need effective tools and strategies, along with professional development opportunities such as
coaching, to improve the interactions between
teachers and children in their classrooms.
Children whose
teachers had a moderate amount of training and
coaching from RCCP and who taught many lessons showed significantly slower growth in aggression - related processes and less of a decrease in competence - related processes,
compared to children whose
teachers taught few or no lessons.