
Course Module
Deliver Cycles of School
Practice Coaching
Overview
Deliver Cycles of School Practice Coaching is a professional learning module for instruction coaches. Participants will understand how the 8 Cycles of School Practice supports effective teaching. They will learn how to lead the school team in their professional learning plans and how to conduct classroom coaching in support of these plans. Participants will also learn how to hold school and classroom data reviews to support school improvement efforts and the processes for facilitating conversations and collaborating with the teaching team. Embedding the cycles to strengthen parent and community engagement in student learning and school improvement efforts will also be a part of this module.
Learning Intents
- Apply cycles of practice that support effective teaching implementation.
- Communicate to leaders and teaching faculty what constitutes effective teaching and cycles of practice that support implementation efforts.
- Understand how to implement practices that promote a culture of professional learning.
- Communicate importance of professional learning through practices that recognise efforts of leaders and teaching faculty to improve.
- Understand effective practices for engaging the community.
- Evaluate mastery of effective teaching and behaviour techniques among teachers and teaching assistants and provide suggestions for improvement.
- Plan training and coaching as per the professional development plan.
- Implement coaching and feedback cycles of practice.
- Review observations with teachers and teaching assistants.
- Plan student groups based on placement testing.
- Review groups, resource setup and schedules throughout the year.
- Evaluate practices around student placement testing, grouping, resource setup and schedules and determine where improvements can be made.
- Plan regular professional conversations.
- Implement cycles of practice that increase professional collegiality including professional conversations.
- Review participation of school leaders and teaching faculty in professional conversations.
- Evaluate participation data and encourage entire school team to participate in collegial activities.
- Plan opportunities to educate and influence parents on ways to increase learning opportunities of their children.
- Review parent participation in engagement opportunities.
- Evaluate ways to increase parent participation in engagement activities.
- Implement cycles of practice to support fidelity of implementation including classroom observations, demonstrations, modelling, coaching and feedback on effective teaching.
- Coach teaching faculty in identifying coaching and training needs.
- Evaluate need for practice based on observation data and communicate to teachers.
- Review observation and student mastery data to determine need for reflective practices, structured feedback and peer review.
- Plan a schedule for program practice sessions.
- Implement an effective agenda for practice sessions.
- Plan cycles of practice to cultivate a collaborative and trusting relationship with community.
- Implement practices that cultivate trust between the school and the community.

Prerequisite
- Learn Effective Teaching Essentials

Assessments
- Test: Knowledge and skills taught in the lessons

Certifications
Participants are eligible for certification based on attendance and completion of assessment requirements for each module.
- Certificate of Completion: Complete online training and knowledge and skills tests