"Teachers helping teachers is a great way to create a powerful instructional staff. Knight has included very practical and useful tools to help teachers achieve excellence."
—Dale E. Moxley, Principal, Round Lake Elementary School, Mount Dora, FL
"Provides valuable insight for mentors who are in the field working daily with novice teachers."
J. Helen Perkins, Assistant Professor, The University of Memphis
An innovative professional development strategy that facilitates change, improves instruction, and transforms school culture!
Instructional coaching, a research-based, job-embedded approach to instructional intervention, provides the assistance and encouragement necessary to implement new programs that improve student learning. The product of more than eight years of study, this approach to professional development has been proven to help schools respond to the pressures of accountability and reform.
Experienced trainer, developer, and researcher Jim Knight describes the "nuts and bolts" of instructional coaching and explains the essential skills that instructional coaches need, including getting teachers on board, providing model lessons, observing teachers, and engaging in reflective conversations. Each user-friendly chapter includes:
- First-person stories from successful coaches
- Sidebars highlighting important information
- A "Going Deeper" section of suggested resources
- Forms, worksheets, checklists, logs, reports, and other ready-to-use tools
- A short summary of the main chapter points
This book is perfect for coaches, aspiring coaches, as well as the staff developers, trainers, teacher leaders, principals, and other educators who work with coaches and oversee coaching programs.
Now, Jim Knight is offering his expertise in an online professional development opportunity!
Contact your Corwin Sales Manager for more information!
Reviews (35)
Jim Knight Knows His Stuff!
As a new instructional coach, this book has served as a guide in setting me off on the right foot toward a successful career. I've been able to transfer countless lessons I learned from this book into my career as a coach. It entices self-reflection and motivates almost as though Jim Knight were sitting in front of you coaching you on coaching. Definitely a page-turner! Highly recommend!
Exactly as described
Book came in brand new
And authoritative book obviously written by someone with a good deal of experience I found it very helpful to ...
And authoritative book obviously written by someone with a good deal of experience I found it very helpful to augment my coaching work.
Good Read!
Great book for instructional coaches! I found it to be very helpful in my field of being an instructional coach.
Must buy!
Amazing book for any coach or administrator.
Must Have
This is a must have for instructional coaches.
Good resource
Good book for beginning coaches.
Coaches need resources too.
We are using these books to assist our teachers to learn how to more effectively coach teachers.
Great reource
Great resource for learning about the full scope of instructional coaching.
A wonderful approach to Instructional Coaching that is full of resources ...
A wonderful approach to Instructional Coaching that is full of resources and references to investigate the topic even further. If interested in Coaching, this is a priceless guide.
Jim Knight Knows His Stuff!
As a new instructional coach, this book has served as a guide in setting me off on the right foot toward a successful career. I've been able to transfer countless lessons I learned from this book into my career as a coach. It entices self-reflection and motivates almost as though Jim Knight were sitting in front of you coaching you on coaching. Definitely a page-turner! Highly recommend!
Exactly as described
Book came in brand new
And authoritative book obviously written by someone with a good deal of experience I found it very helpful to ...
And authoritative book obviously written by someone with a good deal of experience I found it very helpful to augment my coaching work.
Good Read!
Great book for instructional coaches! I found it to be very helpful in my field of being an instructional coach.
Must buy!
Amazing book for any coach or administrator.
Must Have
This is a must have for instructional coaches.
Good resource
Good book for beginning coaches.
Coaches need resources too.
We are using these books to assist our teachers to learn how to more effectively coach teachers.
Great reource
Great resource for learning about the full scope of instructional coaching.
A wonderful approach to Instructional Coaching that is full of resources ...
A wonderful approach to Instructional Coaching that is full of resources and references to investigate the topic even further. If interested in Coaching, this is a priceless guide.
Must have book for coaches!
Jim Knight is one of the leading researchers in the field of instructional coaching, and this book is is a "must have" book for anyone researching, working with, or in an instructional coach position. He has a coaching center at the University of Kansas, is easy to reach by email with questions, and has a great website and blog, too, to keep up-to-date as a coach!
Four Stars
Helpful in moving yourself in the direction of coaching others in education.
The Rosetta Stone !
I total five star rating ! Jim Knight has brought us the Rosetta Stone ! Almost overnight we have greatly increased the expectations of students. We give teachers 100 page 'learning modules' to tell them what to teach....But we do next to nothing about 'how' ! My work over 40 plus years in education indicates that the biggest correlate to student success are the skills of the teacher ! Without instructional coaching, those skills will not grow to match the demands of Common Core ! Teaching is the only performance profession that has yet to embrace coaching and videotaping of its work followed by feedback. I agree with Jim Knight that Instructional Coaching is THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MODEL FOR THE 21st Century !
Four Stars
Informative but common sense to a teaching professional.
but it wasn't the worst textbook I've read
I read it for a class, but it wasn't the worst textbook I've read.
Very informative
Great info! I'm enjoying the read!
Two Stars
need for a class not a good read
Instructional coaching
If you are a specialist in education, don't know who Jim Knight is and don't have this book, shame on you! Get it and get going.
Four Stars
It is very informative.
Great buy
This book was exactly as reported. Very quick arrival and condition was perfect. I was very pleased with this purchase.
Four Stars
Great book with great ideas.
Very satisfied
Book was delivered quicly and was as promised.
Five Stars
useful
Great Service
Book in exact condition as stated and fast shipping. Would recommend this seller again. Excellent choice, helpful in class and for anyone who could like to be an Instructional Facilitator.
Outdated
This was published in 2001 so I think it's pretty outdated.
