Instructional Coaching for Student Achievement Outcomes
The primary responsibility of instructional coaches is to improve classroom instruction and increase student achievement. Instructional Coaching in the Lansing School District has been designed to build teacher capacity while increasing student achievement outcomes. Instructional Coaches provide teachers with access to high quality instructional development; equipping teachers with the skills and knowledge to improve student achievement.
Instructional coaching is not limited to only new teachers to the profession.
What will students know, be able to do, or produce at the end of instruction?
Instructional Coach Support can look like the following:
Model classroom instruction
Collaboratively Plan Standards based lessons
Support the use of teacher questioning practices to provide opportunities for students to dialogue.
Support the use of teacher questioning practices to provide formative feedback to students to elongate the learning progression.
Collaboratively develop learning maps (also called learning progressions") for standards based units.
Collaboratively evaluate student work in relation to the learning targets to identify trends.
K-8th Grade Instructional Minutes by Content Area and Sample Schedules
This link will take you to the LSD's webpage that supports K-12 Instruction. These documents can be found in the Staff Forms site as well.
IXL - eLearning Library
This on-demand professional learning resource provides micro-learning videos about every IXL feature and best practices for implementing IXL. Teachers must be signed into their IXL accounts to access these videos. https://www.ixl.com/resources/elearning-library
Workshop Model Lesson Plan Form to Assist in Planning Lessons
