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What Effective Teaching Looks Like
To me, at least
Last week, I wrote about some retrospective thoughts around my instructional coaching. Retrospective meaning that I’m not going to be in a formal instructional coaching role for too much longer. As part of thinking through what my role will look like after coaching, I’ve spent some time over the last month framing out what I think effective teaching looks like.
Here’s my framework.
Why I did it.
The initial impetus for getting something like a teaching framework on the page emerged from a coaching conversation that I had with one of my teacher partners. We were discussing was the observation that our institution has all sorts of frameworks, and toolkits, and various other resources that we hold up as exemplifying what good teaching looks like, but they don’t really scratch the itch. There are a few reasons for this, but I think that mostly they miss the appropriately sized target. Some of them (blessedly few!) are too prescriptive, suggesting that some specific instructional techniques are superior to others. I don’t necessarily disagree, but I think that type of framing is generally a loser when you are starting from a baseline of highly competent instruction. It goes back to earlier thoughts that I’ve written about regarding the primacy of promoting broad…
