Differentiated Coaching for Educators

Differentiation: Adjusting Your Style to Meet the Needs of Those You Teach and Coach!

Learn how the theory of personality type, popularized through the MBTIŽ, can tie together such diverse staff development topics as differentiation, classroom management, culturally responsive teaching, instructional coaching, and collaboration. For a quick overview of the value of using personality type theory in schools, read our article from Principal Leadership below:

Learn More About Using Personality Type in Schools


Corwin Press
Teachers can change when they understand what they do best. Learn about a research-based theory that you can use as a consistent framework for:
--Learning styles
--Differentiation
--Helping teachers collaborate
--Improving classroom management
--Culturally responsive teaching.
The framework of personality type isn't a panacea but a robust tool for examining how who we are influences how we teach--and how to reach those who learn differently.

Collaborative teams, professional learning communities, distributed leadership, effective principalship--dozens of publications tell you that this is what schools need. Differentiated School Leadership shows you how, by using the theory of personality type as a schoolwide language for communication, collaboration and change. Filled with examples, staff development activities, and other resources that allow leaders to plan for embedded staff development, this is a hands-on handbook for developing effective leadership throughout a school--or throughout a district.

Why Attend Our Workshops?


Decades of research on personality type shows that resistance is often the result of management not meeting the informational needs of people during change.

Differentiated Coaching recognises the differences in what each educator needs before changing classroom practices. Our books and workshops give principals, district personnel and instructional coaches the tools they need to differentiate adult learning, modeling for teachers what their students also need. Differentiated coaching provides strategies for
--understanding teacher beliefs that can block change
--using the research-based framework of personality type, popularized through the MBTI, to understand differences in how people take in information and make decisions--two key processes in education
--"translating" information and communicating to meet teacher needs
--changing coaching roles, depending on the learning style of the teacher
--relating new strategies to the teacher's interests and concerns.

Hargreaves, Fullen, Dewey and others all conclude that changing a teacher's classroom practices often involves changing who that teacher is. Differentiated coaching makes that possible while motivating the teacher to take active responsibility for professional growth.

MBTIŽ, Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorŽ, Myers-Briggs, the MBTIŽ logo and Introduction to TypeŽ are registered trademarks of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Trust.




I'm speaking at the Gifted/Talented Symposium, June 14-17, "Coaching PLC's to Meet the Needs of Gifted Students"

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For You and Your Professional Learning Community


New! Case Studies Page


If you've read the book or attended a workshop, you know case studies are at the heart of Differentiated Coaching. Click on our Case Studies page for more cases and instructions for individual or group use.

Workshops


"...a 5 star event. Design, knowledge, presentation. Jane had her entire audience with her every moment, from listening to carefully spaced, physically active exercises." --Seminar Attendee

Teachers as Communities of Learners

European Type Conference
Berlin, Germany
May 27-29, 2010
www.typeconference.eu

Differentiated Coaching
Melbourne, Australia
September 6-7, 2010
www.nzapt.org

2010 Instructional Coaching Conference
Kansas University


The EdCoaching Books

Education
Creating a Coaching Culture for Professional Learning Communities
Ensure that your PLCs become effective and sustainable by establishing a common coaching framework that ensures that all teachers--and therefore all students--can learn
Differentiated School Leadership
A school leader's handbook for making distributed leadership an effective reality
Differentiation through Personality Types
Corwin Press, December 2006