Put Me in Coach! Using Coaching to Support K-3 Educators Implementing Social Emotional Learning Strategies
Summary
To improve educator effectiveness, student outcomes and school functioning, continuous focus must be placed on educator support and professional development. This is especially true when working to implement strategies to support school reform along with students' social-emotional, academic, and behavioral needs. To best meet the complex needs of educators implementing new content and strategies in their classrooms, professional development must be comprehensive, relevant, individualized, timely, and targeted. Establishing coaching is one evidence-based mode for bridging the gap between knowing and doing for educators that have demonstrated effectiveness within tiered systems of support. Traditional professional development models often lack practical use of strategies and rarely allow for real-time classroom practice and use of strategies. Engaging with instructional practice-based coaching provides educators support in real-time with access to immediate feedback on their implementation of a targeted strategy. Utilizing this method of support in the classroom has been shown to increase the implementation fidelity rates of educators while facilitating rapport and a shared understanding of professional experiences. Research shows a strong connection between high educator implementation fidelity and coaching can act as a catalyst for improving and supporting that endeavor. We highlight critical coaching components implemented within a multi-tiered system of support while focusing on social-emotional learning as the targeted instructional content. Participants will explore a coaching menu and gain a deeper understanding of how varied, yet intentional coaching models can support educator strategy implementation fidelity and their feelings of success and self-efficacy in the classroom. Coaching protocols to support educators engaging with social-emotional learning training and implementation are detailed with a focus on strategies to support educators through coaching as they engage in targeted professional training.
Put Me in Coach! Using Coaching to Support K-3 Educators Implementing Social Emotional Learning Strategies
To improve educator effectiveness, student outcomes and school functioning, continuous focus must be placed on educator support and professional development. This is especially true when working to implement strategies to support school reform along with students' social-emotional, academic, and behavioral needs. To best meet the complex needs of educators implementing new content and strategies in their classrooms, professional development must be comprehensive, relevant, individualized, timely, and targeted. Establishing coaching is one evidence-based mode for bridging the gap between knowing and doing for educators that have demonstrated effectiveness within tiered systems of support. Traditional professional development models often lack practical use of strategies and rarely allow for real-time classroom practice and use of strategies. Engaging with instructional practice-based coaching provides educators support in real-time with access to immediate feedback on their implementation of a targeted strategy. Utilizing this method of support in the classroom has been shown to increase the implementation fidelity rates of educators while facilitating rapport and a shared understanding of professional experiences. Research shows a strong connection between high educator implementation fidelity and coaching can act as a catalyst for improving and supporting that endeavor. We highlight critical coaching components implemented within a multi-tiered system of support while focusing on social-emotional learning as the targeted instructional content. Participants will explore a coaching menu and gain a deeper understanding of how varied, yet intentional coaching models can support educator strategy implementation fidelity and their feelings of success and self-efficacy in the classroom. Coaching protocols to support educators engaging with social-emotional learning training and implementation are detailed with a focus on strategies to support educators through coaching as they engage in targeted professional training.
