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Discover how a coaching model based on teachers’ learning styles can impact student success!Help teachers understand how their strengths and beliefs may lock them into practices that can limit student success. The author uses research of personality, multiple intelligences, experiential learning models, and mind styles models to create a differentiated approach for staff development. Key elements include:Understanding teachers’ strengths and beliefsProviding information that can influence beliefsMeeting teachers’ needs during changeRelating what is being learned to an existing problem
Discover how a coaching model based on teachers’ learning styles can impact student success!Help teachers understand how their strengths and beliefs may lock them into practices that can limit student success. The author uses research of personality, multiple intelligences, experiential learning models, and mind styles models to create a differentiated approach for staff development. Key elements include:Understanding teachers’ strengths and beliefsProviding information that can influence beliefsMeeting teachers’ needs during changeRelating what is being learned to an existing problem
AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorPart I: Staff Development That Changes Classroom Practices1. What Do Teachers Believe?2. What Do Teachers Need During Change?3. What Problems Do Teachers Want to Solve?4. How Can Teachers Collaborate?Part II: Developing a Language for Change5. A Common Framework: Creating a Climate Where Change Is Possible6. Learning Styles and Coaching: An Effective Alliance7. Coaching Your Whole Staff for Change8. Differentiated Coaching for Teachers: The Power of a Strengths-Based Model9. A Framework for Solving Problems10. Organizing Staff Development Efforts in the Same BackpackAppendix A: The Sixteen Types: Strengths, Beliefs, and Needs During ChangeAppendix B: Problem-Solving ModelAppendix C: Case Studies in Coaching Teachers for ChangeReferencesIndex