CSD Coaching Playbook

CSD COACHING PLAYBOOK

THREE COACHING APPROACHES Improvement is about involving different approaches to coaching, including Facilitative, Dialogical, and Directive. Each approach has a unique function, purpose, and time when it will be the most effective. Facilitative Coaching A style of coaching where the coach listens with empathy, paraphrases,

and asks powerful questions, but do not share their expertise or suggestions because the coaches role is to help teachers unpack what they already know and it may inhibit a teachers progress in problem-solving.

Directive Coaching The goal is directive coaching is to help teachers master a certain skill or set of skills. The relationship is similar to a master-apprentice relationship. The role is the coach is to transfer knowledge to the teacher. Coaches listen, confirm, ask questions and sensitively explain, model, and give feedback about a specific high quality skill being implemented.

Dialogical Coaching This approach of coaching balances advocacy with inquiry. The coach embraces inquiry, collaboratively sets goals, identifies strategies and adaptations that will increase student achievement. The coaches use the cycle of identify, learn, improve to reach the teacher’s goal. The coaches position teachers as decision makers, and share expertise and teaching strategies when it will help teachers improve.