#CLTWalkthrus

Chiltern Teaching School are proud to launch this film series of classroom practice and coaching in partnership with WalkThrus.

These films follow a teacher exploring the implementation of a WalkThru technique in the classroom, followed by a coaching conversation with Tom Sherrington.

They have been designed as a tool to support both a greater understanding of the techniques used, as well as a model of how to support the teacher to reflect and refine their classroom practice further through an instructional coaching approach.

I hope what viewers will gain is a better understanding of how the steps in each walkthru can take shape in a classroom context. The teachers have done a superb job of enacting the five-step techniques but they are not setting themselves up as exemplars, just people on a journey working on implementing a technique in the context of their subject. In my coaching conversation, I've tried to start each discussion with a run-through of how each step manifested itself in the lesson snapshot. This would not be typical of any subsequent coaching session but as it's the first time for me to meet the teacher in this situation, I am using the session as an opportunity to establish a shared understanding of the specifics of the Walkthru steps before focusing on developmental action steps for the teacher concerned. However, once you take on board the very particular circumstances of these conversations, I hope what comes across is a spirit of positive engagement with precise praise followed by earnest probing and problem-solving leading to some specific actions steps, following the Bambrick-Santoyo coaching protocol that we advocate in our Walkthrus work.

Regards
Tom

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