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Welcome to "Ask the Tech Coach," a podcast for Instructional Coaches and Technology Integration Specialists.
In this episode of “
Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan welcome Instructional Coach Heather Esposito on the podcast to discuss the need for student voice inside of the classroom.
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Question of the Week
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This week’s question is:
How can Instructional Coaches support teachers in creating highly effective and authentic lessons while at the same time, keeping Student Voice in the conversation?
Weekly Topic
- How to navigate conferences as an Instructional Coach
- How to set conference goals to support both professional learning and personal goals
- What are the Frameworks that coaches have to support teachers across various grade levels and content areas?
- Is a Coaching Framework a personal philosophy, or a district mandate?
- How to best explain your own Framework to teachers and administration to help them support you and your digital learning mission.
- How to create standards and objective based coaching goals
- Ultimately, coaching is about helping teachers support their students and showing your value in that process.
- Learning how to find a common goal with that teacher to build positive and professional relationships
- Ask questions
- Be positive
- Invite teachers to ask questions of you (the coach) to push the conversation forward
- The importance of understanding the learning and innovation curve
- Why should coaches set up appointments with administrators during the summer?
- Set up meetings to talk 1:1
- Goal setting
- Get on the calendar
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