The Role of the Instructional Coach/Technology Integrationist

The instructional coach (I'm including technology integrationist in this definition) focus on Student-Centered Coaching, we provide our consortium with the tools and practices it needs to ensure that coaching impacts teaching practice and student learning. By focusing coaching on specific goals and targets for student learning, rather than on changing or fixing teachers , a coach can navigate directly towards a measurable impact and increased student achievement.

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

― Pete Carroll

This idea of coaching is based on teacher and student need. In a climate or culture of education being based on the final grade on a test, the instructional coach (IC) or technology integrationist (TI) can be the next step for intervention, enrichment, or deeper understanding.

“As soon as students get a grade, the learning stops. We may not like it, but the research reviewed here shows that this is a relatively stable feature of how human minds work.” ― Dylan Wiliam, Embedded Formative Assessment

Everybody needs a coach. Every teacher can improve. We have one of the best jobs in the world because we never get good at it; we can only get better.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

― Rick Pitino

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