The Leading Coaching in Schools publication offers a range of practical tools to help review, develop and evaluate coaching.
They can be downloaded in Word format here so that they can be easily adapted to your needs and context.
The tools consist of templates to reflect on, complete and discuss with colleagues, and the processes can be used in professional learning and research for individual or team activities.
The principles of the National Framework with space to identify the implications for your school.
(75kb, 1 page)Analyse whether coaching in your school helps people achieve specific learning and school improvement aims.
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Rate how well certain roles and responsibilities are established in your school, and explore the action implications.
(74kb, 1 page)Audit individual coaching skills with this inventory.
(76kb, 1 page)Rate a list of coaching practices according to how frequently they occur in your school.
(70kb, 1 page)A number of statements suggesting what a coaching culture might look like in practice. Review how closely these statements reflect the culture in your school.
(79kb, 1 page)This document offers sample 'openers' and question stems to use when coaching.
The following documents or links are suggested processes that can be used in professional learning and research. Although not specifically designed for coaching purposes, each protocol may be helpful as part of individual or team coaching activity.
Learning conversations
A learning conversation is a planned and systematic approach to professional dialogue that supports teachers to reflect on their practice. This document details what learning conversations look like and their benefits, as well as providing suggestions for further reading.
(460kb, 8 pages)This publication from the Networked Learning Group describes facilitated conversations that follow certain agreed protocols. These protocols allow you to reflect on your practice in a structured way for maximum learning.
Networked research lesson method
NCSL's Networked Learning Community research lesson study is a process that helps groups of teachers to develop lessons and invent new practices in order to solve classroom problems and raise standards of teaching, learning and achievement.
(2.9Mb, 6 pages) Warning: large file (500kb, 6 pages) (494kb, 6 pages)
Action learning
A useful definition of a process for working collaboratively on real problems from within the NHS.
(80kb, 3 pages)A method to support collaborative and practice-focused learning used in NCSL's New Visions programme.
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