The Impact Cycle: What Instructional Coaches Should Do to Foster Powerful Improvements in Teaching

Most impactful thing I saw with my student teachers is letting them visit and observe other teachers. Early in my teaching career my school did 'rounds' where new teachers were given about 4 days to go in and observe the more successful or experienced teachers and see what they did. It helped me tremendously to see what teaching styles would work for me and what would not. Have them take notes while observing you or other teachers and then use a planning period to discuss what they say, what worked, what didn't seem to work, what questions they have, etc. Explain your classroom management techniques and actively discuss with them what you find works and areas you might still struggle in. Let them voice and try out ideas. Let them work out what they think they will do and how they will set it up. Get them involved in the curriculum planning side of things as well. Walk them through the process you/your team uses to determine when to teach what and how to create or find appropriate lessons. If you do the PLC process, it is good to get them into the steps now so they have a good framework for lesson planning and working with a team. If you want some summer reading, I did some work as an instructional coach for struggling teachers and I learned a lot form these books. They are not really for student teachers, but they have some good ideas in them that might help you approach coaching your student teacher: https://a.co/d/0cgWOanq https://a.co/d/08cQxTrm Any other instructional coaching books that catch your eye-I read so many it is hard to focus on more than those two.