{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Better Teaching: Only Stuff That Works","title":"Gene Tavernetti on Instructional Coaching - Transformative Principal","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2227,"description":"This episode features an interview from the show Transformative Principal with Jethro Jones. \n\nEveryone should have a coach\nThere are people who are viewed as the real pros\nThe difference between having a coach and “just getting better”\nThe biggest mistake coaches make.\nHow to mix the coach’s agenda with what the teacher is doing\nPersonal relationship vs. professional relationship\nFocus is powerful. \nTeacher behavior during a training vs. teacher behavior in classroom.\nTeachers don’t have to be an entertainer. \nCoaches as a model lesson. \nPower Phrases and Phrases to Never Say.\nTeacher behavior matches the behavior of the grade they teach.\nTechniques that work regardless of your personality. \nCoaching cycles are important. Meet, observe, debrief, Check-in\nThis is your lesson, do it your way. \nCoaches need to be smiling during the observation. \nDebrief - how they evaluated their own lesson. \nCalibrate with a local coach or administrator. \nHow to be a Transformative Principal? Know that your role is not that of a coach. Coach helps teachers get better. Principal - don’t get in the way! Part of a system of improvement.\n\nAbout Gene Tavernetti\nDr. Gene Tavernetti has been involved in education for over forty years. He has served as coach, teacher, counselor, administrator, and consultant. He is the author of Teach FAST, a book about the design and delivery of quality instruction, and Maximizing the Impact of Coaching Cycles, a book that answers many of the questions that were left unanswered in most books on instructional coaching. \n \nIn 2006 Gene partnered with his former high school teacher and mentor, Dr. Randy Olson, to found Total Educational Systems Support, (TESS). The focus of TESS has always been training teachers, and those who support teachers, in how to provide the best instruction possible. \n \nDr. Tavernetti holds a core belief about children and adults: Given the right environment and proper support, everyone can improve and succeed. This core belief has...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/VSXrwoUOSd2tDtIjeOHJdpEf8A1p87_Wq_-T3Iwockc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lNmEx/NWNiM2YyNjE5MDRm/YmE5YzFiZDM3MGQ2/Mzg5Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}