Professional Development

Instructional Facilitator

Grade Levels

  • K-12 Instructional Facilitators
  • K-12 Administrators

Approved Areas of Professional Development

  • Advocacy/leadership
  • Assessment
  • Building a collaborative learning community
  • Instructional strategies
  • Mentoring/coaching
  • Principles of learning/developmental stages
  • Systemic change process

Description

Instructional Facilitator Professional Development is eight sessions over one year offered through a partnership with the Arkansas Department of Education, the education service cooperatives, and the state's STEM centers. It is designed to assist instructional facilitators in developing effective coaching practices so they can implement change efficiently. Based on Dr. Jim Knight’s Instructional Coaching Institutes from the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, sessions will focus on partnership principles and the Big Four: classroom management, content planning, instruction, and assessment for learning. This professional development opportunity includes a combination of workshop sessions and site-based observation training in a classroom.

Training Schedule
Day Content
1
 Change agent, coacing component, partnership principles
2
 Barriers to change, communication skills
3
 Big Four - lab site
4
 Big Four - lab site
5
 Big Four - lab site
6
 Big Four - lab site
7
 Big Four - lab site
8
 Big Four - lab site

Research

  • Instructional Coaching Kansas Coaching Project. Instructional Coaching Research. Retrieved from http://www.instructionalcoach.org/research.html
  • The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement. "Instructional Coaching," by Julie Kowal & Lucy Steiner. Issue Brief, September 2007:Learning Point Associates in partnership with the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL), under contract with the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved from http://www.centerforcsri.org
  • The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement. "Principal as Instructional Coach," by Lucy Steiner & Julie Kowal. Issue Brief, September 2007: Learning Point Associates in partnership with the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL), under contract with the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved from http://www.centerforcsri.org

Professional Texts

  • Instructional Coaching: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction, by Jim Knight. (978-1 412927246)
  • Coaching Classroom Management: Strategies and Tools for Administrators & Coaches, by Randy Sprick, Jim Knight, Wendy Reinke, Tricia McKale Skyles, and Lynn Barnes. (978-1599090405)

For more information please contact:

Literacy specialists at your local education service cooperative.