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Academic Instructional Coaches
Role of the Instructional CoachInstructional coaches provide support to their teacher colleagues through:
Coaching
- To engage and enhance self-directed learning: self-managing, self-monitoring, self-modifying
- To assist in the analysis of and reflection on instructional practice
Collaborating
- To solve instructional problems
- To apply and test shared ideas; learn together
Consulting
- To increase pedagogical and content knowledge and skills
- To implement accepted practices and policies
Facilitating Professional Learning Communities
- To learn protocols for discussion which foster inquiry, problem-solving, and reflection
- To apply protocols to provide a safe environment in which to examine school data, instructional practice, and student work.
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