EXPERT COACH
TRAVIS THURSTON
The Leader's Role in
Developing Teacher Expertise
UEL Standard 2: Teaching and Learning
An educational leader promotes the success of every student by advocating, nurturing and sustaining a school focused on teaching and learning conducive to student, faculty, and staff growth.
TRAVIS THURSTON
EXPERTISE
“...have acquired extensive knowledge that affects what they notice and how they organize, represent, and interpret information in their environment”
-Bransford, Brown & Cocking, 2000, p. 31
COMMON EXPERT TRAITS
Phil Mickelson
Steph Curry
Mike Krzyewski
EXPERTS DEFINED
1. There's shared understanding among all in their profession about what constitutes quality performance
2. Improved their given craft with public scrutiny and feedback. Not one of these professionals practice in isolation
3. Each have had or continue to have extensive coaching. It is understood as the most powerful way to improve one's craft is through coaching by someone with high expertise
COMMON EXPERT TRAITS
Phil Mickelson
Steph Curry
Mike Krzyewski
“...continued learning is key to improving practice; that learning is inherently a social process; and that learning can be facilitated-in fact accelerated-through well-developed and supported organizational structures”
-Fink & Markholt, p. 321
IT TAKES EXPERTISE TO MAKE EXPERTISE
learning expertise
teaching expertise
How coachable are you?
“by providing an instructional framework that clearly identifies quality teaching practice, is it possible to accelerate leaders' learning of quality instruction while still fostering the critical elements of individual and group learning involved in the instructional rounds process?”
QUESTIONS
Expert Coach
By Travis Thurston
