Teaching WalkThrus: Five-step guides to instructional coaching: Visual step-by-step guides to essential teaching techniques

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Each session is focused on one area of practice and the strategies that have the highest leverage in the classroom. These strategies will provide a reference point for reflection and support discussion about the ‘best bets’ for teaching in participants’ particular contexts followed by time to implement and embed these in their practice. Furthermore, there will be opportunities to hear from other professionals from across the region about how they’ve used WalkThrus to transform practice in their classroom. Dates Date Introduce colleagues to WalkThrus: an evidence-informed framework for teaching development that provides the what, why and how of great teaching, whatever their career stage At the heart of effective coaching processes is a shared understanding between the coach and teacher. WalkThrus provides the all important reference point, supporting discussions about what the teacher is doing in the classroom, matching perceptions with reality, and what they might work on to improve their practice.

Each Meridian Trust colleague can also now access a full subscription to WalkThrus. This is an external, online platform that provides teaching focused strategies, broken down into granular steps, that complement our approach to developing High Quality Learning Environments in all our schools. I have two quibbles with the book but neither is worth demoting it from a solid five-star rating. The subtitle, Five-step guides to instructional coaching doesn’t quite capture its full breadth and scope for teachers generally. More importantly perhaps, while colleagues who teach younger children will benefit from the vast majority of the WalkThrus, I struggled to find specific examples that primary teachers would directly identify with. That seems an unfortunate oversight and an easy bias to have remedied. These could apply to your whole school or college, each team or individual. Include your staff in the selection process: It’s important for teachers to work on techniques which solve problems that they themselves recognise. This phase is the mature long-term state you reach when, typically, you will have teachers well-versed in the WalkThrus techniques, using them successfully in their routine classroom practice. However you will always have new staff joining and some colleagues who will need some additional support. Scope out your programme for the year ahead, ring-fencing the time that leaders and teachers will need to run training, coaching and team meetings.It’s important to analyse the specific learning issues in your setting: Start by running a session with your staff to look at our Learning Model, using the WalkTrhus toolkit. Combine discussion with modelling of the techniques by someone who has the confidence to show colleagues how it can be done - live or via video.

All modules have been selected or developed by colleagues across Meridian Trust and are bespoke to the needs of the Trust and those working in or supporting our SEN, primary and secondary schools. Primary and secondary teachers in their 3rd/4th year of (QTS) teaching who are either new to WalkThrus or have experience of using them in their practice. Create opportunities for colleagues to engage in rich conversations and reflection about how to improve practiceWalkThrus is an external, online platform that provides teaching focused strategies, broken down into granular steps, that complement our approach to developing High Quality Learning Environments in all our schools. We hope this exciting new programme will enrich our collective knowledge, skills, and expertise, developing over time to reinforce our commitment to excellence and valuing our people. We have developed a comprehensive catalogue of Trust-led learning opportunities. This catalogue is made easily available – including via Sharepoint – to all our colleagues so they can easily select the module or webinar that suits their need.

Pathfinder Teaching School Hub is part of Pathfinder Multi Academy Trust, an exempt charity registered in England and Wales. Each technique is concisely explained and beautifully illustrated in five steps, to make sense of complex ideas and support student learning. Following the break-out success of Teaching WalkThrus Volume 1 (2020) and Volume 2 (2021), Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli present the third instalment of their five-step instructional coaching techniques.

Working across a system of sixty schools, WalkThrus has transformed teachers’ approach to their craft. It has provided professionals at every level with the shared language and understanding to improve teaching, giving teachers the power of ‘how’. WalkThrus is a keystone of our self-improving system.’ Still, in spite of that, Teaching WalkThrus has easily become my go-to reference from the many educational titles lining my bookshelves, and I have no doubt it will be for any who read it. Alternatively, this programme would also be suitable for teachers looking to get the best out of their students and work towards mastery. Sessions will include