Differentiated Coaching: A Framework for Helping Teachers Change

by Jane A.G. Kise

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

Genres: Education

264 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2006

About the author

Jane Kise is a writer, education consultant, and corporate trainer. She has written over 25 books, including Educator Bandwidth, Doable Differentiation, Differentiated Coaching, and Intentional Leadership. She is a past president of the Association for Psychological Type International, an organization dedicated to constructive use of differences.

Reviews

[Lindsay Bowley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book completely changes how I will relate to others at work. I am excited to differentiate with my staff just like they are expected to differentiate with their students!

[Sarah Hanawald · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kise pulls it all together in this book and it really works! She discusses the need to actually know the teachers we are coaching and then designing our coaching to support their needs and their pedagogical styles. Seems obvious? It is, but Kise then does the reader a favor by getting very specific about how to accomplish these two things.

First--getting to know teachers well. How do we do that? Kise recommends using more than one tool. She suggests using personality types (a la Myers Briggs) and learning about teachers' mental models. She provides some quick survey instruments and illustrates her theories with descriptions of case studies.

[Kaylynne Watson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helpful--Coaches should read!

[Tito · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book!