There’s strong evidence that pedagogical coaching (also known as instructional coaching) can be a highly effective form of CPD in schools. Benefits range from increasing staff morale and agency, to enhancing collaboration between teams, to improving pupil outcomes.
However, if you’re interested in embedding teacher coaching in your school or trust, it’s important to lay the groundwork for success. A strong understanding of the tools and resources needed, a plan for implementation, and developing expert coaches within your staff team can all help you turn a promising concept into an effective reality.
Our training sessions are designed to help members of your staff team build this solid foundation within a culture of collaborative improvement. Participants will learn the skills needed to be instructional coaches, before receiving guidance on how to adapt a range of useful plans and resources to your setting. You will leave the sessions with a tailored vision of how you will plan, implement, and evaluate your new coaching programme – created by your team, for your team.
TDT’s Pedagogical coaching, or instructional coaching, is a programme of collaborative meetings between pairs of staff members – a coach and a coachee – who meet as equals.It can be used by ECT mentors but is also applicable to teachers at any stage of their career.
Coaching works on a continuous cycle where the coach will help their coachee identify a goal for development, what evidence will be given as progress towards it, and the timeline for gathering that evidence,before a later feedback session.
The principles of Pedagogical Coaching are:
The training will be delivered by a TDT Professional Learning Lead who has personal experience of education leadership as well as a deep knowledge of the research behind what makes effective professional development. You can find out more about them below.
This package will also include access to TDT’s “Building a Supportive Coaching Culture” e-learning module for the individual in the setting leading this programme to support with implementation.
We have previously delivered this programme with Multi-Academy Trusts and groups of schools, bringing colleagues together from multiple schools to develop a shared understanding of how coaching can be used to develop teaching and learning.
To discuss what might work best for your setting, please get in touch for a free consultation with our team.
Yes, it comes with access to the Building a Supportive Coaching Culture Online Learning Module on our CPD Leadership Hub
In groups of 8-12 per school, participants will:
Looking for coaching that will develop you or a colleague further as a leader of CPD? Take a look at our 1:1 coaching and professional learning community programmes.
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