The+Coaching+Cycle

The coaching cycle is an integral role of an academic coach and an effective tool for targeted teacher improvement. Teacher and coach work together in an effort to improve professional skills and achieve a specific goal. The cycle may be initiated in different ways: The teacher may approach the academic coach to a self-identified area of improvement, the coach may approach the teacher based on classroom snapshots of school-wide goals, or an administrator may approach the teacher based on the area of refinement determined during an observation. The role of the coach in each of these scenarios is to determine the most appropriate method of the coaching cycle and help guide the teacher through self-reflection and professional growth.