Developing Principal Candidates' Instructional Coaching Through a Partnership With Teacher Education

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Abstract

This paper describes a unique collaboration between principal and teacher preparation programs at a rural university in southeastern United States. The project met both the needs of teacher candidates to receive instructional coaching on their teaching and the need of principal candidates to gain experience giving instructional coaching. Feedback and coaching were provided through video capture and annotation technology (VCAT) allowing the principal candidate to provide specific feedback using evidence from the teaching candidate’s video to support their instructional coaching. Researchers explored quantitative and qualitative data of principal candidates’ coaching experience to determine the change in their self-efficacy in providing instructional coaching over the course of a semester and their perceptions of their experience using VCAT to facilitate the coaching.

Authors

• Karen D. Jones, East Carolina University

• Jennifer Lynn Gallagher, East Carolina University

• Christina M Tschida, Appalachian State University