High Impact Teaching Teams

Participants will delve deeply into transformational coaching through engaging in interactive activities, discussion, and reflective exercises to deepen their understanding and practice of coaching. There will also be the opportunity to reflect on your current processes to identify strengths and opportunities to build a collaborative coaching culture. Build strategies to increase staff engagement and build a positive team culture. Soft skills such as emotional intelligence, communication and conflict management are highlighted as well as robust processes around meeting protocols, decision-making protocols and establishing trust and psychological safety.

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Challenges

System requirements for ‘Collegial Engagement’ in schools has resulted in some compliance-driven methods of observing teaching and learning in action. Due to time constraints, coaching in schools can be high in intent and low in execution. We need to ask ourselves if the current methods of lesson observation are having an impact on improving instruction – and how? Or are we jumping hoops to fulfil an obligation without necessarily improving pedagogical strategies and impacting positively on learning?

In addition to great practice, there is more to creating a dynamic team than just getting things done. When we ‘go slow to go fast’ and work on our team fundamentals, we can set ourselves and others up for success.

Bringing people together to focus on the most important work may sound easy, but we can feel pressed for time and less effective than we would like. Creating alignment and opportunities to intentionally collaborate to get results is the work of high impact teaching teams.

Solutions

Participants will engage in a two-day program to:

Day 1

• Understand the 3B’s of Instructional Coaching – Beliefs, Behaviours and Ways of Being.
• Build trust and psychological safety within your coaching program.
• Develop rigorous processes and templates to support a high-trust coaching program.
• Use powerful questioning and active listening in coaching conversations.
• Conduct low-inference observations and provide constructive feedback.
• Support teachers in setting goals and reflecting on their practice.

Day 2

• Understand the foundations of trust and psychological safety and formulate the strategies to implement with their teams.
• Build a culture of coaching across their teams.
• Create an emotionally intelligent team.
• Develop effective communication strategies.
• Manage conflict.