Below is my instructional coaching experience video with the second grade team from my school.  We focused on writing strategies to help second graders expand on their writing and to develop their ideas.

The video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltwwpAYz-GU&feature=youtu.be

Coaching Session

Below is the video of my one on one coaching demonstration with Mrs. H (a pseudonym).

The url is: One on One Coaching Movie

Knight (2007) mentioned Reinke (2005) as explaining that an effective classroom learning experience was one where at least 90% of the students involved displayed on task behavior.  This statement, help Mrs. H (a pseudonym) and I develop our instructional goal.  Because the school, B Elementary (a pseudonym) is one that experiences many behavior issues, we decided to attempt to reach the 90% on task behavior goal as our instructional goal during the coaching process.

According to my collected data, during the lesson, students were generally off task about 27% of the time; this would also indicate that students were generally on task about 88% of the time.  Sometime to take into account was the fact hat during the lesson, Mrs. H had to address the off task behavior of mainly one student who was repeatedly displaying off task behavior.  Overall the class was on task.

One on One Coaching Experience

My one on one coaching partner/ co-teacher Mrs. H (pseudonym) and I decided to focus on the area of behavior.  Knight (2007) included behavior in his Big Four, these are areas that teachers can focus on for success in the classroom.  As a part of my role, as the instructional coach in this instance, I made use of Reinke (2005) on task, off task behavior monitoring chart.  Below is a graph that provides some background into why we chose the area of behavior for our focus.  B Elementary (pseudonym) has historically been a school plagued with behavior issues, therefore, this was a great area for our focus in order to help address this issue and make a turnaround for our school