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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.

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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

  1. Step 1Read Start Here, then pick the focus your teacher wants to work on.
  2. Step 2Use the shared coaching core and the focus tools in your coaching conversations.
  3. Step 3Use the worked examples to see what a completed form looks like.
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