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AI in K-12 instruction: Insights from instructional coaches

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As trusted mentors and professional development leaders, they guide teachers in implementing AI tools thoughtfully, ensuring that technology enhances student learning while aligning with pedagogical best practices. The coaches reported that AI is used for various instructional purposes.

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Let’s Help Teachers Grow by Coaching — Not Micromanaging — Them

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One approach that schools can use to support teachers at all levels is providing collaborative, subject-specific coaching. In many instructional coaching models, the line between mentorship and evaluation is blurred, with coaches serving as pseudo-administrators. Schools should provide responsive training to teachers, as well.

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My Greatest Teaching Problem Was Feedback. Here’s How Research Helped Me Solve It.

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Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. My challenges with the feedback load were officially impacting my health and family life. Students were getting the feedback they needed faster.

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The Opportunities and Drawbacks of AI-Powered Reading Coaches, Assistants and Tutors

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Referred to as AI-powered reading coaches, assistants or tutors, these tools use generative AI to provide learners with personalized reading practice, stories, feedback and support. While the latter may entertain, the former serve to educate. Recently, a new kind of tool has emerged.

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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

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York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. I rarely ever get feedback on my teaching style. With that feedback, Phipps brought down the ratio of teacher-to-student talk to 50:50. These observations generated by AI can take quick effect.

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3 ways educators can leverage videos

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I contend that video technology helped to save education during the pandemic, and therefore should not be abandoned. As years of research from Harvard University has shown, the benefits of capturing and sharing videos to support preservice teachers, new teachers, and instructional coaching are far too great.

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How Video Coaching Leads to More Honest Teaching

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When we first began doing video coaching at Brevig Mission School in Northwestern Alaska, I was nervous. Such a thoughtful, respectful back-and-forth only increased the admiration I had for my colleagues, made me more eager to seek their feedback, and made clear the benefits of tapping into our staff’s collective intelligence.

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