Instructional Coaching: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction - Hardcover

Knight, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412927234 ISBN 13: 9781412927239

Verlag: Corwin Press Inc, 2007

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An innovative professional development strategy that facilitates change, improves instruction, and transforms school culture!

Instructional coaching is a research-based, job-embedded approach to instructional intervention that provides the assistance and encouragement necessary to implement school improvement programs. Experienced trainer and researcher Jim Knight describes the "nuts and bolts" of instructional coaching and explains the essential skills that instructional coaches need, including getting teachers on board, providing model lessons, and engaging in reflective conversations. Each user-friendly chapter includes:

• First-person stories from successful coaches
• Sidebars highlighting important information 
• A "Going Deeper" section of suggested resources
• Ready-to-use forms, worksheets, checklists, logs, and reports

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Jim Knight is Senior Partner of the Instructional Coaching Group and a Research Associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. For more than two decades, he has studied instructional coaching and professional learning, becoming one of the leading voices internationally in the field of instructional coaching.

Jim has authored numerous influential books and articles on instructional coaching, leadership, and effective teaching practice. The Impact Cycle: What Instructional Coaches Should Do To Foster Powerful Improvements in Teaching, Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach to Dramatically Improving Instruction and The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching: Seven Factors for Success are considered seminal texts in the field. Jim regularly presents and consults internationally, leading workshops, institutes, and keynote presentations across the United States and around the world. Through his work with educators and school systems, he has helped shape coaching practices that support meaningful professional growth and improved outcomes for students.

 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Corwin Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1412927234
• ISBN 13: 9781412927239
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 239
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