Most of the time we are so busy with the day to day, that we don't have time to reflect on our teaching. Effective coaching using non-leading questions allows the teacher to really dig deep and think about their lessons and understand their impact on student learning.

When teachers receive effective coaching they are able to hone in on what specifically needs to be improved to help students succeed. They can take back what they learn into their classroom in order to increase student understanding/success.

Coaching conversations promote teacher reflection by slowing down practice, making thinking visible, and guiding teachers to examine their work thoughtfully and intentionally.

While formal coaching builds lasting, strategic improvements in instruction, informal coaching encourages timely, responsive changes. Together, they support continuous growth that benefits student learning.

Coaching conversations promote teacher reflection by pointing out observations of a lesson and asking the teacher how and why something did or did not go well. These questions often lead the teacher into seeing what s/he did well and usually prompt the teacher to come up with solutions on his/her own rather than being told what to do explicitly.

Formal and informal coaching can impact student learning in a positive way because the teacher is being encouraged to use concrete student evidence to decide on the next steps that need to be taken.

Coaching conversations promote teacher reflection by allowing the teacher time to really think about their lesson and understand what impact there was on student learning. It provides the opportunity for the teacher to reflect on their knowledge and understanding of what is going on in their instruction.

Informal and formal coaching can impact student learning on my campus because it is allowing teachers time to reflect on their instruction and for them talk with others to get feedback.

Teachers make incredible connections with their teaching when prompted by the right questions in a coaching conversation. Effective coaching looks like asking questions to enable teachers to make observations and insights about their own teaching, rather than just being told "you did the well, you need to work on this..."

“How might formal/informal coaching impact student learning on your campus?”

I think both formal/informal coaching would significally impact student learning at my school. When teachers are reflecting on their teaching they will hopefully improve. Also students would benefit from coaching sessions to. Students could be questioned through coaching stratagies to and come to conclusions about their own efforts and education.

Formal coaching is like a pre-/post-observation and has the teacher sit down and look at the materials that the students did or will be doing. This can give time to look at the materials and see if they are going to promote student success of the criteria or if it will not. Also formal coaching gives teachers time to reflect on what did and did not work, so that they can do better for the next time and grow from that.

Both allow teachers time to reflect on how the students did and allow for improvements to do better.

All of that will make our classroom learning environments richer!

Q2. Meeting informally and formally are both beneficial to the process. While formal meeting take more time, it uses student work examples to look at and see what the student learned. Did they learn what you wanted them to? What are the teacher's next steps. Informal meeting help by checking in, observing, and giving feedback to questions, student performance etc... These take place in short snips and take less time than a formal meeting. And time for all involved is always a premium. Both types help to strengthen both the teachers skills and improve student outcomes.