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Coaching Skills for Successful Teaching™
Learn how to establish an effective coaching relationship. Bring about positive instructional change by developing rapport with colleagues. Gain essential communication skills that enhance self-confidence.
- Find out what coaching is and what it isn't.
- Become proficient in the 3-step coaching process.
- Communicate with ease and clarity.
- Customize the coaching process for your school.
This graduate course is offered in various locations throughout the United States. Credit is granted through partner universities.
View the full course description to see course availability in your area.
Coaching Skills for Successful Teaching®
Professional Development
Implement a coaching program in your school:
PLS provides customized staff development and consulting.
We can design a customized coaching program that works for your school or district.
"Your coaching and mentoring in-service has changed the way our teachers interact with each other. It has caused us to raise our game considerably. Thank you PLS!"
Professional DevelopmentSuccess Story
Professional Development: Coaching and Mentoring
One could say teachers were among the first entrepreneurs. We all have the image of the school teacher coming out West, opening a one-room schoolhouse, and teaching all the children in town. Teachers enter a classroom, close the door behind them, and teach primarily on their own. They rely on their years of education and experience and do the best they can.
Sometimes, though, it's nice to have a little help from your friends.
Read how Winter Park Tech in Orange County, Florida used Performance Learning Systems' coaching program to improve teacher communication.
Teacher Turn-Over Rates Decreased by 29%
Steve Barkley's new book!
Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching
Steve Barkley wrote this book with the hope that it would both inspire you to continue or initiate a coaching program, and serve as a resource as you implement and build your own coaching program.
It is filled with concrete examples, opportunities to practice specific skills, a clearly defined coaching process, and real-life anecdotes and quotes to pepper it up in the process. This book promises to provide a framework to incorporate a culture of coaching into your own educational environment.
Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching
Related Online PD
Coaching for Educators
This 4-hour professional development consists of two online modules:
- The Value of Peer Coaching (2 hrs)
Explore the meaning of peer coaching, its benefits, and the ways coaching empowers teachers at all levels of experience and ability. - The Process of Peer Coaching (2 hrs)
Learn the three-part process of peer coaching.
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Mentoring to the Rescue
"I only survived my first year of teaching first grade because I was teamed with an experienced teacher who mentored and coached me through the process. Without this, I would have been in trouble.
"Over the years, I have learned that a mentoring program creates three benefits or rewards for beginning teachers who enter it: the opportunity to celebrate, the opportunity to add options to your repertoire, and the opportunity for conscious practice."
Read what Steve Barkley, expert coach and trainer, has to say about the importance of mentoring.
Mentoring to the Rescue!
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