There are three phases of a coaching framework necessary at the beginning of a coaching relationship to ensure success. These are hiring, planning and development. Once the teacher and coach set a goal and choose a teaching strategy, the teacher must learn to implement the strategy. For the coach, this means explaining and modeling teaching strategies.
When teachers reach their goals, coaches ask if they want to set and pursue other goals or to take a break from training. To study educational coaching, researchers from the Kansas Coaching Project worked with trainers from Beaverton (Oregon) and Othello (Washington). Educational instructors using a proven training cycle can partner with teachers to set and achieve improvement goals that have a positive and unmistakable impact on students' lives. A coach using the educational training cycle is Jackie Jewell, from the Othello School District in Washington.
Many objectives can't be seen by watching a video, so coaches may need to collect observation data or teachers and coaches may need to review data from evaluations or student work. Annie Forest, training and mathematics coordinator at Illinois, explains the stages of a successful training cycle and explains how clear goals and continuous reflection help to drive them forward. In addition, Instructional Training Group researchers conducted more than 50 interviews with trainers across the country. However, as important as those factors are, it may be more important for coaches to understand how to advance the components of an effective training cycle that lead to improvements in student learning.
