Planning a Productive Teacher Coaching Session

Kasting Connections' Perspective:

I spend time with teachers in their classrooms and feel the defensiveness, the sense that I'm in their rooms to judge instead of observe.  Teaching is a profession that would benefit from more peer coaching and sharing of  ideas, yet as this article points out, there is tremendous stress to get through the curriculum and have students test well.  Somewhere in that rush for excellence, the students can be lost and teachers' innate abilities are pushed to the side to achieve outcomes that non-educators are setting. 

I appreciated Jennifer Abrams' insight on the coaching model and how to approach a teacher, with respect and dignity, who is working hard to meet demand,s but may be in need of minor improvements.  I will be using the suggested outcome map in my future interactions with teachers.

Thank you, Jennifer!