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Cucchiarini, Catia; Nejjari, Warda; Strik, Helmer – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2012
Individualized tutoring and feedback by trained language instructors are known to be optimal for language learning. Providing them is time-consuming and costly, however, and therefore not feasible for the majority of language learners. This applies particularly to pronunciation, where corrective feedback should ideally be synchronous, which makes…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Coaching (Performance), Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kise, Jane A. G. – Journal of Staff Development, 2012
Consider for a moment how launching a professional learning community is similar to starting a race. Athletes know the danger of false starts--moving before the starting signal. Until recently, a false start meant that all racers returned to the blocks to begin again, their adrenalin gone, their concentration broken. Because these effects could…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Academic Achievement
Carraway, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study examines the perceptions of principals in the implementation of Skillful Observation and Coaching Laboratory (SOCL), an instructional program designed to help principals improve teaching and learning in the classroom. Specifically, this study sought to describe the extent to which components of SOCL were implemented with…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Coaching (Performance), Program Implementation
Ortiz-Torres, Amanda – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore principals' perspectives on how they make sense of their leadership roles in a new pay-for-performance system. The study describes the perceptions of six principals, two each from elementary, middle, and high school levels, regarding leadership in a recently changed system. Principals were…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Leadership Role, Compensation (Remuneration)
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Coburn, Cynthia E.; Woulfin, Sarah L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
Many educational policy initiatives use instructional coaching to accomplish their goals. Yet we know little about the role of reading coaches in mediating the relationship between policy and teachers' classroom practice. In this article, we investigate the role of reading coaches in mediating the relationship between Reading First policy and…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Coaching (Performance), Role, Role Conflict
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Davis, Alan; Mitchell, Kara; Dray, Barbara; Keenan, Tracy – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2012
Working in a research collaborative between Denver Public Schools and the University of Colorado Denver, the authors selected Bruce Randolph High School (BRHS) as a case study because of its growth on state academic achievement tests and because of its multilingual learners. After a difficult beginning, BRHS has established an inclusive culture of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Coaching (Performance), Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement
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Gardiner, Wendy – Teacher Educator, 2012
Approximately 80% of new teachers have mentors, yet mentoring typically fails to foster new teachers' professional learning--particularly in high-poverty schools. This qualitative study was situated within an urban teacher residency context and explored how six first-year urban teachers and the two induction mentors with whom they worked perceived…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Mentors, Poverty
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Ketelaar, Evelien; den Brok, Perry; Beijaard, Douwe; Boshuizen, Henny P. A. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2012
This article describes a study on teachers' perceptions of the coaching role in innovative secondary vocational education (SVE) in the Netherlands. Data from 109 teachers were collected by means of an online questionnaire, asking for their associations with the coaching role, goals concerning the coaching role, and typical coaching activities.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Teaching Methods, Coaching (Performance)
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McGuinn, Patrick – State Education Standard, 2015
The "Race to the Top" competitive grant program initiated a wave of teacher evaluation reform, which scholars and policymakers have long identified as critical to improving teacher quality and student performance. State boards of education (SBEs) and state education agencies (SEAs) took different approaches to these reforms, and as a…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, State Policy, Case Studies, Program Implementation
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Chen, YuChun; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
Previous research had indicated that pre-service teachers (PTs) with coaching orientations reinforced sexism and masculine bias while employing the sport education (SE) model. The purpose of the current study was to examine whether or not and the degree to which SE delivered by PTs with teaching orientations served to combat or reinforce sexism…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Athletics, Case Studies, Physical Education Teachers
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Carraway, Jennifer H.; Young, Tamara – Educational Policy, 2015
This study examines principals' experiences implementing Skillful Observation and Coaching Laboratory (SOCL), a program designed to help principals become effective instructional leaders. Guided by Karl Weick's notion of sensemaking, this study sought to identify the components of SOCL that were implemented with fidelity and discover the factors…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Program Implementation
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Shields, David Light; Bredemeier, Brenda Light – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2011
The purpose of this article is to examine why and how sport coaches can play an important role in promoting citizenship and democratic character. As microcommunities, sport teams may provide potent venues for learning about the rights and responsibilities of belonging to social organizations; within teams, participants can practice the democratic…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Citizenship Education, Values Education, Moral Development
Hayes, Rhonda S. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study is to examine the coaching interactions of two literacy coaches and four classroom teachers in order to explore how these interactions serve to support teacher learning. The analysis of the study describes how the coaches support teacher reflection and teaching for processing strategies during guided reading lessons. The…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Literacy Education, Coaching (Performance), Teacher Education
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Tschannen-Moran, Bob; Tschannen-Moran, Megan – Educational Leadership, 2011
Evaluation and coaching should not be linked, these authors argue. Although it's tempting for evaluators to identify deficiencies and then specify coaching as a remediation strategy, doing so turns coaching into a consequence of a poor evaluation and termination into a consequence of failed coaching. Another mistake is to use coaching as a data…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Professional Development
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Aguilar, Elena; Goldwasser, Davina; Tank-Crestetto, Kristina – Educational Leadership, 2011
The Transformational Coaching Team in Oakland Unified School District provides differentiated, sustained, job-embedded support to the district's school leaders. In this article, members of the team describe how they work with principals to transform the culture of schools. Student achievement data show above-average improvement in schools in which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Transformational Leadership, Principals, School Districts
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