Bøger af Jim Knight

Refine the art and craft of instructional coaching.For more than 25 years, Jim Knight and his team at the Instructional Coaching Group have been studying what excellence in instructional coaching looks and sounds like. Their findings-organized around 7 Success Factors for instructional coaches and shared via books, articles, and workshops-have helped many instructional coaches around the world to increase teacher effectiveness and improve outcomes for students. Bringing together for the first time a wealth of resources and practical tools, The IC Toolkit is designed to guide instructional coaches-either individually or, preferably, collectively-through a 36-week journey of practice, reflection, and learning. For instructional coaches who want to improve and leaders who want to set up meaningful learning experiences, the book provides concrete tools-including activities, checklists, case studies, and videos-that you can use every week. Additional features include One-page descriptions of each success factor A needs assessment to gauge your instructional coaching proficiency in the 7 Success Factors Learning paths to guide your use of the resources and enable meaningful exploration of each success factor End-of-chapter reflection questionsThe IC Toolkit makes it possible for every instructional coach to become highly proficient in the Success Factors. When instructional coaches become highly proficient in their craft, we can see students, teachers, and systems flourish.

The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching offers a clear philosophy, framework, and method for coaches to establish and deliver programs that make a powerfully positive impact on student learning and well-being.

Few evaluation systems are specifically geared toward coaching roles. Ensuring that school districts have accurate information about both coaches and coaching programs is crucial to guide improvement in supporting classrooms, as well as in ensuring accountability.

Offers a blueprint for establishing, administering, and assessing an instructional coaching program laser-focused on every educator's ultimate goal: the academic success of students.

Every day, teachers need the best resources and forms of support because students deserve the best we as educators can offer. An instructional playbook aims to serve as that kind of support: a tool that coaches can use to help teachers match specific learning goals with the right research-based instructional strategies.

This easy-to-read resource describes several popular approaches to coaching, including literacy coaching, cognitive coaching, instructional coaching, content-focused coaching, and classroom-management coaching, and features contributions from leaders in each field.

Jim Knight introduces an all-new instructional coaching cycle for ensuring teachers and, in turn, their students improve in clear, measurable ways.

This book will help you communicate clearly, help you learn, help you connect, help you be better. At the heart of its innovation is the belief that we can "self-coach" ourselves to become better communicators.

Effective communication is an essential skill for a fulfilled life, and we can't teach it to students if we don't know how to do it ourselves. In this reflection guide, the author delivers a framework for improving professional dialogue that is so clearly signposted, you might as well call it a day planner.

This invaluable resource presents a clear process for using video to promote professional growth and teacher effectiveness.

A dynamic guide to improving student achievement through high impact teaching practices and school improvement

Award-winning author Jim Knight outlines strategies for becoming an Impact School through targeted, consistent professional learning that is done with teachers, not to teachers.

The author describes the practical details of instructional coaching and provides all the tools needed to easily implement job-embedded instructional intervention.