Differentiated Coaching: A Framework for Helping Teachers Change [Hardcover]

Jane A. G. Kise (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2006

The author applies research and theory on personality type, multiple intelligences, experiential learning models, and mind styles models to create a differentiated approach to staff development.

Editorial Reviews

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"Jane Kise's Differentiated Coaching aligns with coaching's fundamental belief in the other person's ability to generate solutions and continuously improve and grow. In our world of fast change and results that often minimize relationships and produce little change, this book illuminates the importance of intentionally knowing and caring about those we coach. As a result, trust and respect exist and change becomes possibility!" (Kathryn Kee, Leadership Coach and Consultant, Coaching School Results, Inc. )

"This is an outstanding book that has the potential to help educators make significant, positive changes in staff development and teaching. It has helped me, an experienced staff developer, understand for the first time the psychology of staff development. I now know why specific behaviors are observed during staff development and why it often does not promote real change. This book is a 'must-read' for all educators who want to successfully help others improve their practices." (Charles F. Adamchik, Jr., Corporate Director of Curriculum )

"Jane Kise really understands teachers. Results come when instructional coaches understand the beliefs and perceptions of the teachers with whom they are working and adapt their coaching moves to match those styles. Jane Kise uses her own coaching experiences with a variety of teachers to show how a framework for understanding their beliefs leads to results." (Lois Brown Easton, Consultant and Former Director of Professional Development )

"Teacher-centered staff development recognizes the differences in adults that we seem to more easily recognize in our children. Much as we may oversimplify the delivery of staff development at the school or district level, practice informs us that one size clearly does not fit all. Kise provides us with a framework for acknowledging differences in adults and shows us how to use this framework to address these differences to support reform." (John S. Freeman, Principal )

"Gives educators a framework for self-improvement, mentoring/coaching, staff development, sense of team, and the ultimate bottom line in education-student achievement. Provides practical implementation advice that is often 'missing in action' when solutions are created by researchers versus those in the trenches." (James M. Bauck, Superintendent )

"Kise helps teachers understand their strengths and styles and how to work with other staff members who have different or similar strengths and needs. The recommended coaching strategies encourage leaders to identify what teachers need during change and how to support these needs." (Meryl Babcock, Principal )

About the Author

Jane A. G. Kise, EdD, is an educational consultant, specializing in team building, coaching, and school staff development. She is also the coauthor of more than 20 books, including Differentiated Coaching: A Framework for Helping Teachers Change, Differentiation Through Personality Types, Introduction to Type and Coaching, LifeKeys, and Work It Out. She holds anMBA in finance from the Carlson School of Management and a doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of St. Thomas.

, EdD, is an educational consultant, specializing in team building, coaching, and school staff development. She is also the coauthor of more than 20 books, including and She holds anMBA in finance from the Carlson School of Management and a doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of St. Thomas.

Kise has worked with diverse organizations, including Minneapolis Public Schools and various public and private schools, The Bush Foundation, Twin Cities Public Television, and numerous other institutions. She is a frequent workshop speaker and has presented at NSDC, World Futures, and APT International conferences. She has taught writing at the university level. She is a faculty member of the Center for Applications of Psychological Type and an executiveboard member of the Association for Psychological Type. In 2005, she won the Isabel Briggs Myers Award for Outstanding Research in the Field of Psychological Type.

 

Product Details

• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: Corwin Press; 1 edition (February 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1412916429
• ISBN-13: 978-1412916424
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,735,683 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on coaching I've read yet!, August 2, 2008

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P. Seda "math teacha" (Atlanta, GA, USA) - See all my reviews
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Differentiated Coaching: A Framework for Helping Teachers Change

Awesome! I recommend this book to anyone who is responsible for helping teachers improve; administrators, educational consultants, instructional coordinators, instructional coaches, etc. I ordered this book because I wanted to figure out how to model differentiated instruction for the teachers that I work with. I not only have a game plan for differentiating my coaching, but also have a clear understanding of why what I was doing before was not working. This book helped me better understand myself, my teachers, and the students that we serve. Its the best book I've read on coaching yet.

5.0 out of 5 stars Help for Teachers, April 4, 2011

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Mark V. Casey - See all my reviews

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This book has become invaluable to me in the work that I do to help teachers improve their performance. The materials are especially helpful in getting those teachers to take that first step in the performance improvement cycle, and that is self-evaluation. Getting a teacher to step back and examine what they are doing and how there may be a better way to operate is the most difficult part of an improvement cycle.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great tool, July 1, 2010

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Teacher "Iowacold" (Manchester, IA United States) - See all my reviews

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As an instructional coach helping our school through transformation to PLCs this book has been a very valuable tool. I highly recommend it to anyone wondering how to reach teachers (and students) who don't think like you do.