Small Group and 1:1 On-Site Teacher Coaching
Through our Teacher Coaching we work with individuals and small groups to achieve shared aims. Benefits include higher retention of teachers/lower turnover of staff and improved levels of achievement for students together with extremely effective, often rapid, professional development for staff involved.
Coaching can help teachers improve:
- Building appropriate relationships with students
- Achieving individual student and class control
- Planning and delivering engaging lessons at appropriate levels
- Using effective pedagogical approaches including cooperative learning strategies
- Meeting individual and group needs in a class
The method or process of how teacher coaching can take place needs to be organised on a school by school basis but one format that is commonly used includes the following:
- Up to 4 Members of staff can be seen per school day
- Staff are observed in teaching situation
- Verbal feedback is given to each member of staff visited that day with written feedback to follow
- Feedback verbal or written to SMT if requested
- Each member of staff given action points and areas/skuills to develop
- Follow up sessions can include further observation and/or email/telephone support
- Each member of staff seen twice over a 4-6 week period
Coaching does not seek to judge or measure the teacher’s performance but is an opportunity for the teacher to discuss and reflect on a number of situations that have taken place in the classroom on any given day.
To set up 1:1 coaching and transform performance in your school or college please call us on 0845 271 2818
