Free tools / Secondary Instructional Coaching Toolkit
Coaching tools for four common classroom focuses
A free coaching toolkit with guides, forms and worked examples for classroom management, questioning, checking for understanding and feedback.
Free. No sign-up, no email, no account.

What is included
- Four focus sections: classroom management, questioning and student thinking, checking for understanding, and feedback to students
- A shared coaching core and a Start Here guide
- 28 pages of printable and editable forms, with worked examples
- Four teacher handouts, and Word versions of the tools
- 20 files and 125 PDF pages in all
How to use it
- Step 1Read Start Here, then pick the focus your teacher wants to work on.
- Step 2Use the shared coaching core and the focus tools in your coaching conversations.
- Step 3Use the worked examples to see what a completed form looks like.
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Free to use, share and adapt under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. Please credit “Pole Mountain Learning, polemountainlearning.com”.
