Coaching Moves - Virtual Instruction

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Names and descriptions of coaching moves with detailed adjustments for the virtual context.

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Coaching Moves for the New Virtual Environment

Even for teachers who are accustomed to coaching, there will be an adjustment period to coaching in this new context. To support coaches in the transition, this resource includes examples of the ways coaching might be modified and technology used for the virtual environment.

The coaching moves outlined support high-repetition practice and real-time coaching.

High-repetition practice is used for one of three distinct reasons: to build automaticity (make foundational skills second nature, to save cognitive space for complex teaching tasks), to iterate (practice repeatedly as a form of rapid cycles of testing and improving an explanation, question, etc. before delivery), and to become more responsive (build up schema through rapid exposure to different scenarios/misconceptions/student responses, so that responding “in-the-moment” is really drawing on past experience). 

Real-time coaching is used for two distinct reasons: to provide teachers an immediate opportunity for authentic application (applying the moves/decisions/processes suggested or modeled right away in class) and to show teachers a move/decision/process in action in their own context (the classroom where they teach, with their students). Real Time Coaching is essential in the virtual context - practice will be key to success.