C.+Instructional+Coach

Instructional coaches team with teachers and provide one-on-one, side-by-side assistance, working together on specific needs in their classrooms. They provide professional development for teachers and school leaders with real-time support focused on changing practice, increasing student engagement, and improving student achievement. **Coaching is confidential, non-evaluative, and supportive.**
 * About My Instructional Coaching **


 * One-on-one and small group support for teachers and other school leaders
 * Collecting and analyzing data to identify and address student needs and measure student progress
 * Evidence-based literacy practices across all content areas
 * Reflective and non-evaluative practice to determine what worked well

Instructional coaches and other teacher leaders help schools put the focus on building teacher capacity. Coaches work with their colleagues to stimulate the change process by thinking outside of the box, supporting the ideas those “outside” thinkers share. They are on the side of helping teachers implement effective instructional practices without evaluating those practices. They help teachers think about what content they are teaching, why they are teaching that content, how they should teach it, and what to do if the instructional delivery does not yield the intended outcomes. They help their teaching colleagues to see the connections between teaching and learning, practice and research, and assessment and outcomes. //http://piic.pacoaching.org/index.php/piic-coaching/coaching-tip-of-the-month/357-may-2014//