Centre for Teaching, Learning & Research
Instructional Coaching Program
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Instructional Coaches observe and provide coaching to teachers with 4+ years’ experience.
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Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s instructional coaches provide both formal and informal mentoring to their colleagues.
In addition to many years of exemplary teaching, each instructional coach has demonstrated a student-centered, technology-enabled approach to learning, as well as the ability to challenge and support students to venture further both academically and personally.
Our instructional coaches:
- Lead all aspects of student learning for their assigned courses
- Observe and provide coaching to teachers with 4+ years’ experience
- Collaborate as a member of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre in the design and delivery of professional development
- Research and model highly effective teaching practices that support Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s approach to education through personalization, particularly as it applies to co-teaching and use of our learning community rooms
Sustaining teacher growth is a key outcome of the Centre for Research, Teaching and Learning. We believe that all teachers can attain the distinction of expert teacher; our Instructional Coaching program is just one way we help them get there.
"Having this program embedded in our structure really elevates the teacher experience. It’s good for teachers, and it’s good for students. "
Kelly Smolinski, Instructional Coach
We acknowledge with gratitude the Ancestral lands upon which our main campus is situated. These lands are the Ancestral territories of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Anishinabek and the Wendake. The shared responsibility of this land is honoured in the Dish with One Spoon Treaty and we strive to care for the land, the waters, and all creatures in the spirit of peace. We are responsible for respecting and supporting the enduring presence of all First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. When away from this campus we vow to be respectful to the land by protecting and honouring it. We will create relationships with the people and the land we may visit by understanding the territories we enter and the nations who inhabit them.
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