Aspects of Teaching

I have been working on what I call the Aspects of Teaching, which is designed to underpin our Instructional Coaching Programme. The purpose behind this is to give coaches and teachers some broad areas of what we do to talk about, but also split it up a little bit to direct conversations to the most important parts that teachers want to work on.

Below is the Aspects of Teaching. It should start automatically, and takes about a minute to play through the whole animation. There is a static image version here.

Hopefully it is fairly self explanatory, which is why I have produced it in an animation form. But by splitting what we do into the 4 big Aspects, and then focusing on a particular detail within one of these, I am hoping to help create useful conversations.

For each Aspect there will be a set of strategies taken from various sources, including

• High-Impact Instruction by Jim Knight
• Teach Like a Champion 2.0 by Doug Lemov
• Making Every Lesson Count by Shaun Allison and Andy Tharby
• Teaching WalkThrus by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli

These strategies will be used in the instructional coaching process as possible ideas that teachers could try to meet their goals. The next step of the process is to put these strategies together, and share them with the coaches so they can start to become experts in them.