Education Research Reading Room ERRR #074a. Josh Goodrich on Instructional Coaching
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Jan 1, 2023 AI Snips
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What Instructional Coaching Really Is
- Instructional coaching is a repeated one-on-one cycle of observation, small targets, modeling and implementation planning.
- Best practice adds rehearsal, deconstruction of techniques, long-term goals and linking to science of learning.
Early Career Struggles Turned Into Motivation
- Josh described struggling in his first two years of teaching and not knowing what he didn't know.
- A coach (Aidan Sadgrove) helped him break behaviour management into small bits and accelerated his improvement.
Why Teachers Struggle To Improve
- Teaching is hard to improve because of stress, situational awareness limits, cognitive load and rapid habit formation.
- These human constraints explain why simple PD rarely changes classroom practice.