What are your Instructional Coaches supposed to know and be able to do? A complete induction support includes orientation, mentoring, visitations, staff development tailored to Instructional Coaches needs, & support groups. Defining the role of the Instructional Coach is particularly important if your site has expectations for results and understands that the Instructional Coach cannot do it all by themselves. Predetermined expectations help identify the training and support needs of your Instructional Coaches.
The following are some ideas for developing the role and tasks of the Instructional Coach.
1. Define the mentor's role in terms of functions such as "support or encourage".
2. Define the mentoring tasks in terms of activities, such as "observe, coach, or plan".
3. Focus first on activities that new teachers value the most (class management and lesson planning and delivery)
4. Teach Instructional Coaches to diagnose the New Educator’s needs and to target help in those areas.
5. Communicate the expectation that the Instructional Coaches will receive job-embedded, on-going training & support for mentoring.
6. Develop a plan for monitoring and identifying problems, and create a collaborative process to support Instructional Coaches and New Educators in dealing with problems.
Source: Dr. Doug Miller, NESS Program Facilitator, HRD
Friday, April 11, 2008
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