Better Teaching on Transformative Principal

Better Teaching: Only Stuff That Works

This episode features an interview from the show Transformative Principal with Jethro Jones.

• Everyone should have a coach
• There are people who are viewed as the real pros
• The difference between having a coach and “just getting better”
• The biggest mistake coaches make.
• How to mix the coach’s agenda with what the teacher is doing
• Personal relationship vs. professional relationship
• Focus is powerful.
• Teacher behavior during a training vs. teacher behavior in classroom.
• Teachers don’t have to be an entertainer.
• Coaches as a model lesson.
• Power Phrases and Phrases to Never Say.
• Teacher behavior matches the behavior of the grade they teach.
• Techniques that work regardless of your personality.
• Coaching cycles are important. Meet, observe, debrief, Check-in
• This is your lesson, do it your way.
• Coaches need to be smiling during the observation.
• Debrief - how they evaluated their own lesson.
• Calibrate with a local coach or administrator.
• How to be a Transformative Principal? Know that your role is not that of a coach. Coach helps teachers get better. Principal - don’t get in the way! Part of a system of improvement.

About Gene Tavernetti

Dr. Gene Tavernetti has been involved in education for over forty years. He has served as coach, teacher, counselor, administrator, and consultant. He is the author of Teach FAST, a book about the design and delivery of quality instruction, and Maximizing the Impact of Coaching Cycles, a book that answers many of the questions that were left unanswered in most books on instructional coaching.

In 2006 Gene partnered with his former high school teacher and mentor, Dr. Randy Olson, to found Total Educational Systems Support, (TESS). The focus of TESS has always been training teachers, and those who support teachers, in how to provide the best instruction possible.

Dr. Tavernetti holds a core belief about children and adults: Given the right environment and proper support, everyone can improve and succeed. This core belief has allowed Dr. Tavernetti to help his students, staffs, teachers, and administrators – with whom he now trains and coaches – to attain the levels of competence they desire.