ITC: 99 – How Do Instructional Coaches Help Instructors

Many high-performing arenas are using a strategy that is underutilized in higher education. Why don’t faculty use coaches to improve their instruction? Research shows it works.

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Professional athletes, musicians, CEOs, and other successful people use coaches to take their abilities to the next level. During my time in higher education, I noticed that faculty are reluctant to use coaches. While workshops and conferences are beneficial learning opportunities, they pale compared to coaching in learning a new skill or raising a performance level.

We ask our students to use tutoring or coaching services because we know it works. Shouldn’t we also serve as role models by using coaches to improve our performance?

This week, I will explore instructional coaching. I will be looking at reasons faculty shy away from coaching, reasons for using coaching, and tips for getting the most out of coaching.

Additional Reading

• What Can Coaches Do for You?
• How Coaching Can Help
• Personal Best: Top athletes and singers have coaches. Should you?
• Transform Organizational Culture Through Coaching
• Job Coaches Help Get Professors Back on Track
• Coaching for Change: Teacher-Centered Coaching
• Want Transformational Teachers? Here’s Why Change Starts With Coaches
• How Coaching Can Impact Teachers, Principals, and Students
• Coaching by design: exploring a new approach to faculty development in a competency-based medical education curriculum
• Instructional coaching holds promise as a method to improve teachers’ impact

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