Implementing a Coaching Cycle

This 15-hour, three-week blended course helps coaches plan, support, gather data, and reflect on lessons with the teachers they support.

Begins February 19

As coaches carry out their critical role as a classroom supporter, they implement three key aspects of a coaching cycle:

1. Engaging in a planning session with a teacher as they prepare an upcoming lesson;
2. Determining how they will support the teacher — through demonstration teaching (modeling), co-teaching, or observing, and collecting data;
3. Reflecting, including analyzing data collected during the lesson, discussing the results of the lesson, and applying what they learn to future teaching practices and future coaching cycles.

In this 15-hour, three-week blended course, expert coaches Heather Clifton and Andy Mendelsberg will unpack the coaching cycle as well as examine and practice critical components of planning and reflective conversation to set the stage for coaches’ ongoing work with teachers.

Through live sessions, activities that support application of learning in their work, and collaboration with colleagues, learners will identify types of coaching cycles appropriate for their work with teachers, and will develop and implement strategies for strengthening their own application of each key component of the cycle. Using tools, strategies and activities grounded in the Standards for Professional Learning as well as the book Coaching Matters, learners will apply strategies to support them in their work as classroom supporter, data coach, learning facilitator, and more.