Why Content-Focused Coaching®?
IFL’s Content-Focused Coaching® model guides teachers through intensive in-classroom professional development. It is an evidence-based approach that supports teachers’ adoption of more engaging instructional techniques.
- The model maximizes the coach’s role as an instructional support for teachers in a content area.
- It has proven effective “at improving reading comprehension instruction and students’ reading achievement in high-poverty elementary schools” (Matsumura, Garnier, & Spybrook, 2013)
- Evidence from Texas school districts shows that it improves student test scores, especially among English Learners.
DialogeX and Content-focused Coaching®
DialogeX has partnered with the University of Pittsburgh's Institue for Learning to deliver their full Content-Focused Coaching® (CFC) program through an innovated online platform with live coaches and facilitator. Our program provides the same level of fidelity as the on-site workshop but with a more flexible class schedule.
The IFL's CFC model maximizes the coaches' role as an instructional support for teachers in a content area. We take a systemic approach to supporting districts in using coaches effectively to advance student learning in ELA/literacy, mathematics, and science.
Our work with coaches positions them as learners and instructional resources. Coaches expand their content knowledge, their knowledge of best content-area practices, and their capacity to collaborate with teachers to advance student learning.
The IFL's CFC model maximizes the coaches' role as an instructional support for teachers in a content area. We take a systemic approach to supporting districts in using coaches effectively to advance student learning in ELA/literacy, mathematics, and science.
Our work with coaches positions them as learners and instructional resources. Coaches expand their content knowledge, their knowledge of best content-area practices, and their capacity to collaborate with teachers to advance student learning.
- Grounded in research on teaching and learning, CFC helps
- Establish trusting and collaborative relationships with teachers and other educators
- Work with teachers individually and in groups to plan, enact, and reflect on rigorous lessons using lesson planning tools, student work, and other classroom artifacts
- Teach or co-teach lessons to model instructional practices for teachers and advance coaches' own learning
- Facilitate ongoing professional learning community meetings in a content area
- Collaborate with principals to plan and deliver focused professional development sessions in a content area
- Overlap co-accountability with teachers for student learning