Coaching classroom instruction demonstrates the importance of coaching--an essential component of effective teaching. The authors guide coaches in giving targeted feedback to teachers and identify specific steps that teachers can take to improve their knowledge and skill. This book includes 280 research-based classroom strategies, organized under forty-one elements of effective teaching, to help coaches move teachers through the five levels of Marzano's teacher progress scale.

Research and theory -- A foundation for coaching -- Not using (0) to beginning (1) -- Beginning (1) to developing (2) and developing (2) to applying (3) -- Applying (3) to innovating (4) -- Aspects of coaching.