Role of an Instructional Coach in Mentoring Process

The Role of An Instructional Coach in the Mentoring Process

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Syrina CohenGrand Canyon UniversityEDU 537: Leadership and Instructional CoachingDr. Lisa RollinsOctober 30, 2024

Instructional Coach Role in Mentoring

Strategy 2 -Reflective Practices

Strategy 1 - Coaching Collabortation

Definitions of Mentoring and Instructional Coch

Presenters Notes

Strategy 3 - Peer Mentoring

References

What is Mentoring ? Mentoring is having a professional relationships with an experienced educator that helps to support and guide the novice or less experienced educator (Knight, 2011). Through their collaboration it helps to enhance the teacher's skills by sharing knowledge and experiences.Why Mentoring Is Important?Mentoring creates an environment that helps to build school culture and aligns the staff with the same common goals (Cheliotes, 2018). When mentoring is done effectively, it helps build a collaborative environment that could postively impact teacher retention and student success. What is an Instructional Coach and their Role?An instructional coach is an educational leader that is there to help teachers to strenghten thier instruction within their classrooms, and provide support so teachers can better serve their students (Dovan, 2023). The ultimate goal for instructional coaches is to help equip teachers to be able to know how to work through their own challenges by using specific techniques they have learned.

definitions and role of mentoring and Instructional coach

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Collaboration in coaching is one strategy in mentoring that focuses on the coach and teacher working together as a team in order to better the teachers instructional practices. This would include shared planning time, observations, feedback, and self reflection.Collaborative coaching helps build a partnership that fosters a shared commitment to growing professionally, and allows for support to be tailored based on each individual need (Knight, 2011).

Implementation

Strategy 1 - Coaching Collaboration

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Delveopment

Self-Direction

Self-Efficacy

Implementation

Implementation to Coaching Collaboration

• Identify areas of improvement
• Shared lesson planning, targeting specific goals
• Observing the implementation of lessons
• Providing feedback
• Reflecting on how to analyze outcomes
• The impact on teaching practices

Supports Development Coaching collaboration encourages the teacher to reflect and look at their own teaching methods. Having ongoing conversations helps to improve culture, and professional growth that aligns with the changing educational standards (Merriam, 2013).

Supporting Development

Self - Direction

Self-Direction Teachers are able to gain autonomy to shape their learning, feeling of being empowered, and having strategies that are specific to their own professional journeys (Knowles, 2015).

Self-Efficacy Self-efficacy enhances the teachers' confidence in their own abilities. Their success is achieved by their efforts in knowng they are capable to succeed. This in turn creates a more resilient and motivated teacher.

Self - Efficacy

Strategy 2 - Reflective Practice

What is it? - self examination of ones teaching methods and its effictiveness. Educators are able to identify their own strengths, and areas of improvement that could lead to personal growth and increased student learning outcomes (Merriam, 2013).

Why Does It Matter? - it is important for growth by allowing educators to coninually assess and impove what they are doing. It also gives the teacher a better understanding of what students need, and helps to guide in future instructional practices.

Implementation

Development & Ongoing Learning

Self-Direction & Self-Efficacy

Reflective practice

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Steps to Implement

• Have regular meetings to reflect on practices and teaching expereiences
• Use a reflection journal to write down any observations / personal insights.
• Peer observations and being open to feedback to help grow personally and professionally.

Development & Ongoing Learning

Self-Direction & Self-Efficacy

Provides teachers with ways to be able to self-examine and enhance their effectivness in the classroom.Through ongoing professional development it allows teachers to assess their teaching methods (Merriam, 2013). Teachers can identify their strengths, areas of improvement, and strategies needed to help with student learning.

Self-Direction - helps teachers to take ownership of their professional growth. By goal setting and looking at their progress, teachers can be proactive in their instructional practices.Self-Efficacy - helps motivate teachers by allowing them to see their own growth (Cheliotes, 2018). As the teacher see their own progress it will increase their motivation which could want the teacher to excell in the profession.

reflective practice

What is Peer Mentoring?

Peer mentoring is when experienced educators work to help support a less experience colleague, by helpig to guide, enhance professional growth, and building a collabrative relationship. The relationship helps to lead to open dialogs and sharing learning experiences that could enrich teaching practices (Cheliotes, 2018).

Strategy 3 - peer mentoring

Implementation

Benefits

Self-Efficacy

Peer Mentoring

Implementation

1. Pair mentor/mentee based on their strengths and individual needs.
2. Open communication during scheduled check in meetings.
3. Feedback that could help build trust and growth.

Self-Efficacy

Benefits

Self-efficacy can lead to greater motivation and increased teaching outcomes (Knight, 2011). Peer mentoring provides personlized feedback and support, this helps to build the mentees self-belief and their commitment to teaching.

• Personlized and targeted support that helps with teacher effectiveness
• Collaborative environment

Presenters NOtes

1. Welcome to learning about the Role of an Instructional Coach in the mentoring process.
2. I will define and provide insight on the roles and strategies used by an Instructional Coach.
3. Theses are the definitions and role of mentoring and instructional coaching, and a video on Instructional Coaching.
4. 1st strategy is Coaching Collaboration.
5. How coaching collaboration supports development
6. Self-direction in the coaching collaboration process
7. How self-efficacy helps the adult learner in coaching collaboration
8. The 2nd strategy is Reflective Practice
9. Here is a video on reflective practice, links to the steps to implement, development and ongoing learning, and self-direction and self-efficacy.
10. How the steps to implement, development and ongoing learning, self-direction, self-efficacy is a part of the reflective practice.
11. The 3rd strategy is Peer Mentoring. Here is a video on peer mentoring and what peer mentoring is. Also the links to how to implement, benefits, and self-efficacy of peer mentoring
12. How peer mentoring is implemented, the benefits, and self-efficacy.

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references

Cheliotes, L., Reilly, M. (2018). Coaching Conversations: Transforming Your School one Conversation at a Time. SAGE Publications. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/coaching-conversations/book260955#preview Dovan, K. (2023). What Is An Instructional Coach in Education? HMH Education Company. https://www.hmhco.com/blog/what-is-an-instructional-coach-in-education Knight, J. (2011). Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach for Dramatically Improving Instruction. Corwin Press. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/book/unmistakable-impact#preview Knowles, M., Holton, E., & Swanson, R. (2015). The Adult Learner: The definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resources Development (8th ed.). Routledge. http://intrpr.info/library/books/knowles-the-adult-learner.pdf Merriam, S., & Bierema, L. (2013). Adult Learning: Linking Theory and Practice. Jossey-Bass. https://download.e-bookshelf.de/download/0003/9722/52/L-G-0003972252-0002483324.pdf

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