Thinking
The latest thinking from our team of experts and our community of frontline educators.
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How has one school developed their coaching offer over time?
Assistant headteacher, Nicky Blackford, shares how her school developed a coaching offer supported by instructional coaching principles.
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‘Instructional coaching is the new mentoring’ with the Early Career Framework
A mentor from Ambition's Early Career Teachers programme tells us about the benefits of an instructional coaching approach to the Early Career Framework.
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Balancing the purposes of instructional coaching
Instructional coach and Ambition Fellow Steve Farndon explores some of the purposes of instructional coaching – comparing an emphasis on habit formation with one that prioritises the development of teachers’ mental models around teaching.
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What is instructional coaching?
Instructional coach and Ambition Fellow Steve Farndon explains what instructional coaching is, how it’s different to the coaching you’ve seen before and the enormous impact it can have.