Instructional Coach's Guide to GenAI

Instructional coaches play a crucial role in supporting teachers and improving teaching practices. Integrating AI tools into your role can enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and the overall impact of your coaching efforts. Here are some ways instructional coaches can use GenAI!

Instructional Coach's Guide to GenAI

Correspondence

Newsletter

About GenAI

Content Support

Coaching Scripts

Data & Insights

PD & Trainings

Choice Boards

Exemplars

Critical Feedback

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Claude

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Feedback

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take Glows and Grows to the next level

Instructional coaches can use generative AI to expedite the feedback process for teachers by leveraging natural language generation. With your help, AI can generate constructive and personalized feedback, allowing coaches to provide timely and tailored support for professional growth.

Claude

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set the standard

Creating student exemplars ahead of a PLC enables coaches to supplement PLC discussions with diverse and relevant student exemplars, fostering a deeper understanding of teaching standards and promoting collaborative reflection on instructional practices. This application of GenAIis especially helpful if you are supporting multiple subjects!

Exemplars

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empower others through choice

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Choice boards provide educators with flexibility and autonomy, allowing them to select from a variety of instructional activities and resources that cater to diverse learning styles and preferences, fostering increased engagement. Choice boards can be used to personalize professional development or to assist teachers diversify instruction.

Choice Boards

create blurbs, summaries, & more

Expedite content creation for instructional newsletters by utilizing chatbots. In combination with your knowledge of educational trends, GenAI can help you personalize content based on staff preferences and needs, and generate coherent and relevant text, enabling timely and customized information for your audience.

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Newsletters

get inspired

By processing diverse sources and synthesizing information, GenAI can help coaches gain nuanced perspectives on effective strategies for adult learning, contributing to more informed and targeted support for educators.

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PD & Trainings

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maximize your productivity

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By integrating generative AI into email-related tasks, users can benefit from improved efficiency, enhanced communication quality, and a more personalized and streamlined email experience. However, it's important to use these tools responsibly and ensure that the generated content aligns with the intended tone and message.

Correspondence

Claude

consider multiple perspectives

Extract more meaningful insights, streamline decision-making, and enhance the overall management of data-driven tasks. Remember, it's essential to keep ethical considerations in mind and ensure that the generated insights align with the goals and values of your campus.

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Data & Insights

prepare and predict

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GenAI can help you create personalized coaching scripts that align with individual teacher needs, promoting consistency, and providing coaches with valuable guidance for supporting professional development. You know the teachers you serve best! Always review and revise your coaching script before meeting with your colleagues.

Coaching Scripts

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serve & support out of your comfort zone

If a long-term substitute is in need of lesson plans, a teachers outside of your expertise is in need of content support, or if you are in need of ideas and inspiration, GenAI can support you.

Content Support

also known as GenAI or GAI

Generative AI refers to a type of artificial intelligence that has the ability to generate new content or data that is similar to, but not an exact copy of, existing data. It involves machines creating something new based on patterns and information they have learned from a dataset. In simple terms, think of generative AI as a creative tool that can produce new text, images, music, or other types of content by learning and imitating patterns from the data it has been trained on. It's like a computer trying to come up with its own ideas or creations based on what it has seen or learned.

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Prompting

Getting Started

Chatbot 101

• "Explain the misconceptions a [x] grade student would have with [learning objective].
• "What are important questions to ask students when they are practicing [learning objective]?"
• "How can a [subject] teacher differentiate the content for [learning objective]?

Content Support: Sample Chat GPT Prompts

• "As an instructional coach, how would you deliver feedback to someone who is struggling to transition from one task to the next?"
• "Role: You are an instructional coach supporting a first-year teacher. Task: Deliver feedback about the need to actively monitor the class during independent practice."
• "As an instructional coach, what is a single action step I can assign a teacher who needs to work on praising students?"

Feedback: Sample Chat GPT Prompts

This resource was created by Clarissa Guerra, an instructional coach at Veterans Memorial High School within the Corpus Christi Independent School District. Clarissa.Guerra@ccisd.us

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• "Role: You are an instructional coach creating a coaching plan. Task: Script five questions to get to know a teacher's style using Elena Aguilar's coaching framework considerations from The Art of Coaching"
• "As an instructional coach, what questions would you ask a teacher who is struggling with student engagement?"
• "I just observed a teacher who was struggling with getting students' attention while he was giving directions. Create a coaching script for working with this teacher using the Get Better Faster coaching considerations."

Coaching Scripts: Sample Chat GPT Prompts

Question 2:Which AI tools, platforms, apps, etc. have you used before? (e.g. ChatGPT, MagicSchool, Claude, DALL-E, Poe, Bard) Question 3: On a scale of 1-5, how comfortable are you using generative AI technology in your role? (5 = most)

Getting Started

What's your entry point?

Question 1:Finish the sentence: AI is like a _______________.

Sample Prompts for Teachers

• English: "Give feedback to this student based on their claim"
• Biology: "Suggest ways to differentiate my upcoming genetics lesson for high school students. Provide strategies to accommodate diverse learners, including visual aids, interactive simulations, and hands-on activities."
• US History: "Assist me in delivering a lesson on the American Civil War. Provide a concise overview of key events and figures, and recommend discussion questions to encourage critical thinking and class participation."
• Math: "Help me plan an engaging review about inequalities for my 9th-grade students. Include real-life examples and interactive exercises to reinforce solving equations step-by-step."

• "Role: You are an instructional coach. Task: Create a choice board for professional development about Capturing Kids' Hearts that has four activity options for teachers to complete within 30 minutes"
• "As an instructional coach, what are 5 activity choices you would incorporate in a training about unpacking the learning standards?"
• What are a variety of activities I could incorporate as an instructional coach delivering a professional development session about student engagement?

Choice Boards: Sample Chat GPT Prompts

• "I am an instructional coach. What are the most critical components of adult learning theory to consider when I am presenting information to teachers?"
• "How can I present high-yielding strategies for student engagement to an audience of 50 middle school teachers of various subjects?"
• "As an instructional coach, create a Canvas module about best practices on parent/family communication"

PD & Trainings: Sample Chat GPT Prompts

• "Role: You are an 11th grade student. Task: Create a short response explaining why Roosevelt's Big Stick Policy was effective for asserting US dominance."

• "Create 5 different claims a 6th grade student would create for the writing prompt: [enter writing prompt]"
• "As a 10th grade student, why would you have trouble understanding the geometric term, 'translation'?"

Exemplars: Sample Chat GPT Prompts

• "Script a phone conversation to inform a parent about a STAAR retake opportunity next week on December 8th"
• "Create a diplomatic response to this email [paste email]"
• "Respond to this email explaining the importance of documenting PLC meetings. Use an urgent tone."

Correspondence: Sample Chat GPT Prompts

• "Create a short blurb introducing the AVID program for an instructional newsletter."
• "Write an instructional newsletter entry about the Think-Pair-Share strategy from the Lead4Ward instructional strategy playlist."
• "Role: You are an instructional coach writing a newsletter for teacher. Task: In 3-5 sentences, explain the importance of reviewing student work during PLC. Tone: Use a lighthearted tone."

Newsletters: Sample Chat GPT Prompts