Getting Started With Coaching

If you’re interested in developing your school’s approach to Instructional Coaching, here is a collection of research and resources that you might find useful. Enjoy! BLOGS VIDEO | AUDIO BOOKS | PUBLICATIONS ACADEMIC PAPERSMore

Self-regulated Learning

One page-summaries In our role as a Professional Learning Lead School for the EAS, we have produced a series of one-page teacher guides to support teachers in developing their students’ metacognitive and self-regulative thinking. You can download the full series here: Hope that you find these useful! Diolch!More

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One-page coaching summaries

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing a series of one-page coaching summaries that we’ve made to support coaches working with teachers at our school. We’ll update this link as we add further summaries to the series, but you can download pages 1-3 here: Hope you find these resources useful!More

Noticing a Learning Problem

I think that the most important attribute of a great coach is the ability to support a teacher to identify the biggest lever to improvement – to be able to notice the single most important thing that will make the most significant difference to pupils’ learning. A classroom is a complicated environment, with lots going…More

Instructional Coaching | Seven Factors For Success | Jim Knight

Jim Knight’s latest book, The Definitive Guide To Instructional Coaching, is a single-volume distillation of Knight’s extensive back catalogue of coaching literature. Jim is without question the founding father of instructional coaching; his dialogical brand of coaching is a powerful model for teacher development. He is the architect of The Impact Cycle, a three-stage framework…More

#FeedThePig

Autumn 1 Half-term Digest As we approach the end of a busy half-term, here’s a round-up of what’s been happening with learning, teaching and professional learning at #TimHeolddu. Instructional Coaching | Cycle 1 Our first coaching cycle of 21-22 launched in September, involving a cohort of 16 teachers working with our team of instructional coaches.…More

6 Principles for Remote Learning

Have realistic expectations For many reasons, teaching remotely, however well we do it,  is not comparable like-for-like with face to face teaching. We are simply in the business of making the best of a bad situation! Listening to colleagues, there is no shortage of anecdotal suggestions that planning and preparing for online learning takes longer. …More

Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

At INSET in October, I made reference to the ‘science of expertise’. This was influenced by the research of Anders Ericsson, and in particular his book Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, which I had just finished reading. Anders Ericsson is the world’s leading scientist on elite performance and deliberate practice. His research…More