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What is an Instructional Coaching “Intensive”?

We have designed this full-day seminar to rapidly accelerate your coaching confidence and expertise, regardless of your starting point.

Following an introduction to the research base, we will dive into the core of instructional coaching, including how to:

• collect high quality observation data
• identify progress already made by your coachee
• diagnose an effective next step
• give targeted and effective praise as a starting point and springboard for a productive coaching conversation
• propose an action step to your coachee in a way that helps them to feel inspired and motivated to take on the challenge
• model teaching strategies in ways that communicate their core components
• support your coachee to effectively plan how to implement their action step in the classroom
• run rehearsal with a coachee in a way that helps them to begin to build the habit of practice excellence

Every insight throughout the day will be clearly and concisely communicated and demonstrated, with lots of opportunities for rehearsal and consolidation provided. 

Note: You do not need to be a Steplab user or school to attend this PD and all principles and practices shared within the PD are entirely applicable to a wide range of Instructional Coaching approaches, both with and without Steplab.

What is Steplab?

Steplab is a professional learning platform for schools that harnesses instructional coaching and data-driven insights to systematically improve teaching and learning. It is the primary tool of choice to drive improvement in high performing schools across the globe.