The Coaching Toolkit: A Practical Guide for Your School

✍ Scribed by Shaun Allison, Michael Harbour

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 129
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Are you looking for practical advice on establishing a coaching programme in your school? This toolkit guides you through the process of setting up and running an effective coaching practice, using examples from a school that has actually done it successfully. The book answers the following questions:- how do you choose your coaches? - how do you train them well? - how do you present coaching as good professional development for all staff? - how do you embed coaching into everyday practice? - how do you evaluate its impact? Accompanied by a CD Rom containing tried and tested photocopiable resources to use in your setting, the book offers all the practical materials you will need.This book is an ideal resource for anyone looking to establish a coaching programme in their school.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
About the authors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Key to icons......Page 11
List of electronic resource materials......Page 12
How to use this book......Page 13
1 What is coaching?......Page 18
2 Why coaching?......Page 31
3 Getting started......Page 36
4 Specialist coaching......Page 46
5 Using coaching for new teachers......Page 53
6 Group coaching......Page 62
7 Coaching in challenging circumstances......Page 70
8 The first steps for school leaders......Page 82
9 Establishing peer coaching across the school......Page 95
10 Measuring impact......Page 103
GLOSSARY......Page 120
References......Page 122
Index......Page 124