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Mentoring, Coaching, and Collaboration: : Special Edition for Laureate Education, Inc.

Expert guidance on coaching and mentoring

Mentors and coaches play a vital role in the teaching profession by providing support, training, and collegiality, alleviating the isolation so often experienced by beginning teachers. Coaching expert Jim Knight brought together leading-edge scholars and practitioners of K–12 professional development for this compilation of their visions of coaching, including:

  • Differentiated coaching
  • Instructional coaching
  • Content coaching
  • Cognitive coaching

Additional topics include mentoring beginning teachers, intergenerational considerations, and working with different personality types. These excellent insights from experienced coaches are especially valuable in supporting teachers in meeting today's accountability challenges.

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Mentoring, Coaching, and Collaboration: : Special Edition for Laureate Education, Inc. - Book Cover
Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412969697
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2008
  • Page Count: 296
  • Publication date: July 10, 2008
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This book is a featured text in a Canter graduate course, Teacher Leadership: Mentoring, Coaching and Collaboration.


Expert guidance on coaching and mentoring

Mentors and coaches play a vital role in the teaching profession by providing support, training, and collegiality, alleviating the isolation that teachers so often experience. Coaching expert Jim Knight brought together leading-edge scholars and practitioners of K-12 professional development for this compilation of their visions of coaching, including:

  • Mentoring
  • Instructional coaching
  • Content coaching
  • Cognitive coaching

Additional topics include mentoring beginning teachers, intergenerational considerations, and working with different personality types. These excellent insights from experienced coaches are especially valuable in supporting teachers in meeting today’s accountability challenges.

Join Jim Knight and other experts at the 2014 Instructional Coaching Conference to explore how whole school reform is enhanced when principals, teachers, and coaches use collaborative planning and effective Instructional Coaching techniques to improve student learning: www.corwin.com/tlc

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Jim Knight

Dr. Jim Knight, Founder and Senior Partner of Instructional Coaching Group (ICG), is also a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. He has spent more than two decades studying professional learning and instructional coaching. Jim earned his PhD in Education from the University of Kansas and has won several university teaching, innovation, and service awards.

The pioneering work Jim and his colleagues have conducted has led to many innovations that are now central to professional development in schools. Jim wrote the first major article about instructional coaching for the Journal of Staff Development, and his book Instructional Coaching (2007) offered the first extended description of instructional coaching. Jim’s book Focus on Teaching (2014) was the first extended description of how video should be used for professional learning. Recently, writing with Ann Hoffman, Michelle Harris, and Sharon Thomas, Jim introduced the idea of instructional playbooks with their book on that topic.

Jim has written several books in addition to those described above, including Unmistakable Impact (2011), High-Impact Instruction (2013), Better Conversations (2015), The Impact Cycle (2018), and The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching (2021). Knight has also authored articles on instructional coaching and professional learning in publications such as Educational Leadership, The Journal of Staff Development, Principal Leadership, The School Administrator, and Kappan. Jim is also a columnist for Educational Leadership and.

Through ICG, Knight conducts coaching workshops, hosts the Facebook Live Program, “Coaching Conversations,” and provides consulting for coaching programs around the world.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface


Introduction to Coaching: Approaches and Perspectives


Chapter 1. Passing the Torch

Chapter 2. Coaches' Roles, Responsibilities, and Reach

Chapter 3. Working as a Partner With the Adult Learner

Chapter 4. The Generations at Work in Schools

Chapter 5. Teacher to Teacher: Personality and Communication

Chapter 6. Differentiated Coaching: Changing Your Approach to Meet Teacher Needs

Chapter 7. Stages in Teacher Development

Chapter 8. Practical Strategies for Assisting New Teachers

Chapter 9. Instructional Coaching

Chapter 10. Content Coaching: Transforming the Teaching Profession

Chapter 11. Cognitive Coaching

Chapter 12. Partnership Communication: Creating Learning Conversations

Chapter 13. Overcoming Obstacles and Reaping the Rewards

Chapter 14. Coaches as Leaders of Change

Index



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