4.5c Evaluate Professional Development Impact

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Evaluate professional development impact

Coaches evaluate professional development involving technology and whether it leads to high-impact teaching and learning. ISTE explains: 'Coaches measure and analyse participant feedback about specific professional learning and evaluate aggregated professional learning against system goals for changes in culture or teacher practise, and continually make improvements to meet the school-wide vision for using technology for learning … Continue reading 4.5c Evaluate Professional Development Impact

4.5b Build Capacity

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Build capacity

Coaches guide coachees on applying the ISTE standards to real world situations, or ones with contextual relevance, involving active participation, and encourage feedback to be used to feedforward. ISTE explains: 'Coaches should build the capacity of educators, leaders and instructional teams to put the ISTE standards into practise by leading professional learning that engages educators in … Continue reading 4.5b Build Capacity

4.4d Model Instructional Design Principles

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Model instructional design principles

Coaches should model instructional design principles with teachers to create effective digital learning environments. ISTE explains that coaches 'should intentionally and transparently adopt and demonstrate established and evolving best practices and guidelines for designing learning experiences for specific learners. Coaches should do this to support educators to create effective online virtual learning environments that use … Continue reading 4.4d Model Instructional Design Principles

4.4b Support Effective Assessments

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Support Effective Assessments

Coaches should encourage educators to use technology to create assessments with timely feedback and to help students use digital feedback tools. These may include tools such as spelling and grammar checkers, commenting tools and audio and video feedback. ISTE explains that 'coaches should help educators use digital tools e.g. digital camera or video, audio software, … Continue reading 4.4b Support Effective Assessments

4.4a Collaborate on Learning Design

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Collaborate on learning design

Coaches should support educators to coach students to set their own learning goals. The coach should also encourage educators to create engaging and practical learning experiences that reflect real-world experiences, and allow student’s knowledge and skills to be demonstrated in a variety of ways. ISTE explains that coaches 'should collaborate with educators to develop experiential … Continue reading 4.4a Collaborate on Learning Design

4.3d Personalise Support for Educators

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Coaches should support educators to deliver knowledge and skills-based curriculums and help them to coach pupils to set their own learning goals. ISTE explains that 'Coaches should personalise support for educators by planning and modelling an approach that supports student mastery of content knowledges while also gaining vital competencies, including problem solving, critical thinking, effective … Continue reading 4.3d Personalise Support for Educators

4.3c Evaluate Effectiveness of Tools for Learning

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4.3c Evaluate effectiveness of tools for learning

This surely has to be one of the most important ISTE standards for Coaches. If digital tools for learning are evaluated using evidence from research then teaching and learning can be improved if the right tools are employed. Coaches should collaborate with others to determine the return on investment of particular tools or digital learning … Continue reading 4.3c Evaluate Effectiveness of Tools for Learning

4.3b Identify Relevant Learning Content with Educators

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4.3b Identify Relevant Learning Content

Coaches should liaise with educators to identify and share a range of learning materials that are appropriate and relevant, and reflect the modern and multi-cultural society we live in. ISTE explains that the coach should 'partner with educators to identify a broad range of learning materials, such as digital media and podcasts; digital curriculum, news … Continue reading 4.3b Identify Relevant Learning Content with Educators

4.3a Cultivate Coaching Relationships

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Cultivate Coaching Relationships

The skills of the coach should help unlock the potential of the coachee and encourage them to adopt new instructional strategies. These strategies may include: flipped classrooms, project-based learning, blended learning, gamification, differentiated instruction, microlearning, personalised learning, culturally responsive teaching, collaborative learning, place-based education, social-emotional learning, inquiry-based learning, augmented and virtual reality. ISTE 4,3b states … Continue reading 4.3a Cultivate Coaching Relationships

4.2c Commit to Continuous Improvement

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Commit to Continuous Improvement

Coaches should lead coachees through a coaching cycle to improve collaboration, coaching and teaching practice. Coaches should establish shared goals with educators, reflect on successes and continually improve coaching and teaching practice.  ISTE 4.2c explains that coaches should establish a set of mutually agreed objectives that guide collaborative work with educators. Coaches should reflect on … Continue reading 4.2c Commit to Continuous Improvement