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

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