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This episode we’re speaking with Jim Knight. Jim has been studying professional learning, effective teaching, and instructional coaching for over two decades. He’s a research associate within the Centre for REsearch on Learning within Kansas University, and has written a whole raft of excellent educational books including Instructional coaching, a partnership approach, Unmistakeable impact, high-impact instruction, Focus on teaching, and the Impact Cycle, whic hsi the focus of today’s conversation.
Jim is an absolute expert at the art and science of coaching, and his knowledge, wisdom, and skill really shines through in this interview.
I’m particularly excited about this interview because we got super hands on and we actually do a live coaching session within the interview. The interview was recorded in two parts. Prior to part 1, I sent Jim a video of my classroom and the first half of the podcast includes a coaching session following his watching of that video. I then went away and tried some things out, and we spent the second half of the interview reflecting on progress, and diving more deeply into the theory and practice of coaching.
It was an absolute privilege to have the opportunity to work with Jim in this way and I hope you take as much from our discussion as I did.
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Links/resources mentioned in the show
- The resources that Jim put forth as evidence for the efficacy of instructional coaching can be found here
- Another damn thing I gotta do, AERA report, teacher perceptions, Jim Knight
- Jim suggests that, for coaching in the US, contact Instructional Coaching. In Australia, check out Growth Coaching International
- Since this episode I also recorded another two episodes on Instructional Coaching with Josh Goodrich. See them here.
- Relatedly, for an excellent guide covering what Instructional Coaching is, a summary of the research evidence for Instructional Coaching, guidance for how to set up coaching in a school, advice on how to select and train great coaches, and more, check out the Steplab Beginner's Guide to Instructional Coaching.
- Also see Ollie's book: Cognitive Load Theory in Action
- Australia – Woodslane Publishing
- UK – John Catt Publishing UK
- US – John Catt US
- Everywhere else – (See your country’s Amazon store)
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