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<p>Keeping educators' skills sharp in a constantly changing world can be a challenge. But instructional coaching provides a focused, one-on-one plan for improving professional practice and teacher performance. In <i>Coaching for Significant and Sustained Change in the Classroom</i>, author Tom Roy shows coaches and administrators how to build strong solution-focused coaching programs and create positive change using a five-step instructional coaching model.</p> <p><b>Move beyond teacher evaluations and classroom observations to establish a defined coaching program:</b></p> <ul> <li>Understand that changes in instructional practices are needed to overcome the challenges today's teachers face.</li> <li>Learn what successful instructional coaching looks like and why coaching is the solution to getting effective professional development in the classroom.</li> <li>Study the five steps of the coaching cycle for teachers, and explore time-proven coaching methods and strategies.</li> <li>Measure the effectiveness of your current program by reviewing the elements of instructional coach training programs that lead to increased teacher performance and student success.</li> <li>Receive tools and forms to help guide the coaching cycle, including teacher reflection, support, and peer coaching, as well as respond to professional development needs.</li> </ul> <p><b>Contents:</b><br> Introduction<br> Chapter 1: Coaching and Change in Education<br> Chapter 2: The Coaching Cycle<br> Chapter 3: Methods and Techniques<br> Chapter 4: School and District Models<br> Chapter 5: Peer Coaching<br> Chapter 6: Program Supervision and Leadership<br> Epilogue<br> Appendix</p>