Instructional Coaching Program

The Crown Center Instructional Coaching Program at Colorado College is a peer-to-peer professional development program that supports colleagues to advance their curricular, pedagogical and assessment practices.  Instructional Coaches are talented teaching faculty of all ranks trained in dialogic coaching and the Inclusive Pedagogies Observation Protocol (IPOP). The IPOP features research based pedagogical approaches to establishing an equitable classroom environment, inclusive instruction, authentic assessment, generative classroom dialogue and critical consciousness. 

Participation is voluntary and designed to support faculty and instructional staff to reach their pedagogical goals through:

• peer-to-peer classroom observations
• syllabus, assignment and assessment design
• reflexive questioning,
• goal setting and feedback.

Participants can choose to receive coaching support on a semesterly or yearly basis.

In tandem with one-to-one instructional coaching, the program also offers team coaching for programs, departments and groups of colleagues invested in collaborative learning and instructional growth.  The Team Instructional Coaching Program is flexible, depending on your shared problems of practice, goals and needs, and can include facilitated opportunities for colleagues to engage together in:

• classroom observations and feedback
• student feedback via surveys, interviews and focus groups
• support with curriculum and syllabi design
• and, more!

The IC program is non-evaluative, confidential and designed to engender trust and collective professional growth to optimize student success.

Please contact Professor Tina Valtierra at kvaltierra@coloradocollege.edu for more information.