TLED 9200: Mentoring, Coaching and Facilitating School Improvement

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the EdD in Teacher Leadership (Advanced Concentration)
This course focuses on specific instructional supervision research, models, and strategies that promote and advocate for collegial schools devoted to improving school wide learning through distributed leadership. Instructional supervision is placed within a developmental, contextual, constructive, humanist paradigm; and examined as a process of purposeful adult interactions and cognitions that promote autonomous, reflective, self-directed teacher practitioners committed to student learning and continual school improvement. This course will focus on the development and application of the knowledge base, interpersonal skills, technical skills, and tasks necessary for instructional supervision, mentoring and coaching. Emphasis will be also placed on school and system factors (sociocultural and political) that may affect teacher leadership in instructional supervision.

Course Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

Demonstrate lifelong learning and leadership by modeling reflection, engaging in professional development, and staying current with educational trends and policies.
Identify staff needs, collaborate with administrators, and provide ongoing support.
Advance colleagues’ professional skills through mentoring, coaching, and feedback grounded in clear criteria.
Foster a collaborative culture focused on improvement, accountability, and shared vision.
Guide teachers in designing meaningful learning experiences, promoting critical thinking, and using multiple data sources to enhance teaching and learning.
Advocate for student needs and promote practices that improve achievement.