CSD Coaching Playbook

CSD COACHING PLAYBOOK

The purpose of coaching is to foster improvement, and is about the challenge of getting better by way of surface versus deep learning and surface versus deep coaching. Because competence is one of the main factors in motivation, when teachers improve teaching practices they perceive the world and our relationship to it. SURFACE VS DEEP COACHING Surface Coaching is a coaching cycle that occurs when coaches

want to maintain relationships more than improve teaching and learning. Coaches increase their perceived value by providing resources, offering supportive comments, modeling lessons, conducting quick observations and sharing quick feedback and opportunities for superficial reflection rather than avoiding challenging conversations. It does not involve setting student focused goals, and only requires us to make minor adjustments. Deep Coaching involves coaches stretching their coaching skills, content knowledge, leadership skills, relationship skills, and instructional skills. In a deep coaching cycle, instructional coaches guide teachers through the process of setting goals, identifying teaching strategies to implement, collatorating, and adapting until the goals are met. This type of coaching involves learning that changes our assumptions about how we do what we do. It gets to the core of who we are, and what we value.