Fuel your passion for teacher development with TCEA’s Instructional Coach Certification! 🏅 Dive into coaching cycles, tech tools, communication, & more. Join our community for support and insights.
- Cost: $349 (discounts are available for 10 or more participants)
- Modules: 9
- CPE Credit Hours: 33
Enrollment includes:
- Free, one-year TCEA membership for each participant ($49 value)
- TCEA digital badge
- TCEA certificate sent via email upon course completion
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Module 1: Understanding the Roles and Responsibilities
In this module, gain a comprehensive understanding of your role and responsibilities within the instructional coach setting. In addition, get tips on how you can clarify your responsibilities to administrators and teachers so that everyone knows what to expect.
Module 2: Building Relationships
In this module, explore the essential skills of relationship-building. This is the cornerstone of effective instructional coaching. Recognizing the significance of strong connections with those being coached, this module emphasizes the time-intensive nature of relationship-building and provides strategies for cultivating meaningful bonds over time.
Module 3: Learning the School Culture and Environment
This module is dedicated to equipping instructional coaches with the essential skill of understanding and adapting to the school culture, values, and policies. Explore how an understanding of the school environment fosters seamless integration and aligns coaching efforts with the overarching goals of the school.
Module 4: Embracing Collaboration
In this module, examine the importance of working harmoniously with colleagues, educators, and support staff. Discover the impact that collaborative efforts bring, enhancing the educational environment through the shared exchange of ideas, resources, and experiences.
Module 5: Focusing on Professional Development
It is essential to stay current on educational research, best practices, and coaching methodologies. In this module, obtain resources to help you with continuous learning In addition, get strategies for modeling effective coaching practices in your interactions with teachers.
Module 6: Investigating the Coaching Cycle
In this module, investigate the key components of a typical coaching cycle. Examine the importance of having a coaching framework to follow. Gain insight into how a coaching cycle can help you with goal setting, action planning, implementation, and reflection.
Module 7: Curating Tech Tools and Teaching Resources
Staying ahead in educational technology is paramount for the instructional coach. In this module, familiarize yourself with relevant technology tools that can enhance coaching practices and support teachers. In addition, learn how you can gather and curate resources that can assist teachers in their professional development.
Module 8: Honing Communication Skills
Sharpen your communication skills with this module. Learn to articulate ideas clearly, provide constructive feedback, and create an engaging learning environment through impactful communication skills.
Module 9: Being Patient and Flexible
Being flexible and patient as an instructional coach is essential for effectively supporting teachers through the process of change. In this module, learn how you can cultivate the qualities of being patient and flexible.
