Description

This stack is designed to provide educators with information about a range of skills that those in either formal or informal roles can use when coaching other educators.

What You'll Demonstrate

You will demonstrate the skills needed to effectively coach educators.

Who Should Apply

  • PK12 instructional coaches
  • PK12 school administrators

Micro-credentials

Collecting Observation Data

The coach demonstrates proficiency in gathering observation data to promote new learning through meaningful feedback.

Implementing Post-conference Conversations

The coach demonstrates the use of purposeful questioning in a post-conference to provide opportunities for feedback and help identify aspects of the observation that will promote new learning.

Implementing Pre-conference Conversations

The coach demonstrates the use of purposeful questioning in a pre-conference to collect information and help identify aspects of the observation that will promote new learning.

Implementing Reflective Questions

The coach demonstrates the use of purposeful questioning to promote educator reflection in a conversation that is transformative and creates a shift in teaching and learning.

Listening to Coach

The educator demonstrates the use of listening as a tool for increasing the coach’s understanding of the coachee’s thinking and perspective in a coaching conversation.

Listening as a Skill

The coach demonstrates the use of key listening skills as tools for creating the foundation of an effective coaching conversation.

Using Planning Conversations: Coaching

The coach supports and accelerates deeper thinking through purposeful and intentional conversations in which learning goals are refined and strategies and approaches to reach those goals are explored, considered, and selected.

Questioning to Coach

The educator demonstrates the use of coaching questions as tools for impacting the thinking of the coachee.

Questioning as a Skill

The educator demonstrates the use of key questioning skills as tools for structuring and facilitating an effective coaching conversation.