1. Instructional Coaching at Westminster
Now and the Future

2. Current Job Description
Helping to incorporate technology
Collaborate on lesson planning
Feedback regarding intervention strategies
Modeling R/W Workshop Lessons
Create assessments & class materials
Help with integrated studies
Individual and small group instruction - “plugging in”
Writing lesson plans & rubrics for teachers
Attend PLCs, GLMs, & Goal Meetings
Assist the administration (Admissions)

3. Serving the Needs of Faculty & Students

4. Survey Results: Job Description

6. What is Instructional Coaching?
Instructional coaching involves two people: the classroom teacher and the coach
Coaches work one-on-one and in small groups with teachers
Coaches provide guidance, training, and other resources as needed.
Coaches focus on practical strategies teachers use to engage students and improve their learning
Coaches provide or arrange professional development activities for all teachers in a school

7. Instructional Coaching
Jim Knight, 2006

8. Data on Effectiveness of Instructional Coaching Model
In 18 of 21 PAHSCI (Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative) schools, the percentage of 11th-graders reaching proficient or advanced levels in math on the Pennsylvania System of Student Assessment (PSSA) exceeded the statewide percentage of students reaching proficiency from
In 15 of 21 PAHSCI schools, the percentage of 11th-graders reaching proficient or advanced levels in reading on the PSSA exceeded the statewide percentage of students reaching proficiency from
91% of teachers coached regularly stated that coaches helped them understand and use new teaching strategies.
79% of teachers coached regularly said that their coach played a significant role in improving their classroom instruction and practice.

9. New Job Description
Help teachers use data to make instructional decisions
Researching, modeling and facilitating workshops on new instructional strategies
Document & assess strategies we implement

10. Goals of New Job Description
Develop robust co-teaching model
Develop robust co-planning model
Build a strong culture of differentiation
If these three goals are fulfilled your “professional tool box” will be enriched.

11. Homeroom teachers’ roles in this coaching model
Collect & process student achievement data
Reflect on ways to meet ALL students’ needs
Seek professional guidance & support to address student needs

12. What does this connect to?

13. Learning for Life: Essential Skills
Communicate and Collaborate
Problem-find and Problem-solve
Create and Innovate
Reflect and Revise
Serve and Lead

14. Learning for Life: Essential Attributes
Studies that integrate rather than separate
Problems that require critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration
Schedules and Spaces that fit learning
Teachers in teams supporting learning and innovation
Assessments and Feedback that promote learning and growth
Content and Relationships that connect us to the larger world and the world to us

15. Timeline for our work as Instructional Coaches

16. Coaches’ Professional Learning
Professional Learning Team
Facilitated by Center for Teaching
Three coaches, Laura Pattison, Sue Davenport
University of Kansas, Instructional Coaching Institute, Summer 2013
Carol Ann Tomlinson, 3-day workshop on differentiated instruction at ASCD conference March 2013
Auditing our own reservoir of strategies
Researching PD for co-teaching/differentiation
Lesson study
Explore coach’s role in PLCs

17. Coaches continued support of teachers
Coaches work with grade-level team in GLM on implementing strategies
Support teachers that attend PBL workshop in Feb 2013 with Buck Institute
Collaborating with PLCs to address student learning problems through implementation of different instructional strategies
Pushing out PD to individual grade teams
Co-planning and modeling lessons

18. Outcomes
All Westminster Elementary School students will reach their full potential as 21st Century Learners
All Westminster teachers become experts at Learning for Life teaching strategies
Build a robust model of co-teaching in the Elementary School.
Achieve the goal where ALL teachers see themselves as “learners” & “entrepreneurs”

19. GOAL protocol to be updated by Faculty Meeting on Dec. 5th

20. Questions?