Field Coaching

Project IMPACT has teamed with experienced teachers from partner districts to provide virtual field coaching to teacher candidates and new teachers. The Field Coaches are trained on methods to make the coaching formative rather than evaluative. This gives teacher candidates more opportunities to improve their classroom skills. The project incorporates the GoReact video sharing and formative feedback tool to provide live and asynchronous comments on Project IMPACT teachers and teacher candidates. This system supports time-stamped formative feedback on pre-recorded video recordings and on live video streams, which can be used to support remote observation of teacher candidates and novice teachers by their mentors.  

Presentations & Publications

• Using mixed-reality simulations to develop instructional coaching skills. In T. Cherner & A. Fegeley (Eds.) Bridging the XR Technology-to-Practice Gap: Methods and strategies for blending extended realities into classroom instruction, Vol. II (pp. 173-193). AACE2023. Brodeur, K., Mrachko, A.A., & Huziak-Clark, T. (2023). https://www.learntechlib.org/p/222293/.
• Leveraging Collaboration to Reimagine Teacher Candidate Supervision. American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Brodeur, K., Huziak-Clark, T., Mrachko, A., Bigelow, L., Falter Thomas, A., Gill, K. (2023 February).
• Reimagining the educative power of coaching: A new model for teacher candidate supervision. American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Annual Meeting Presenter. Brodeur, K., Mrachko, A., & Huziak-Clark, T. (2022, March). 
• Developing a field coaching model to transform supervision of teacher candidates. Ohio Confederation of Teacher Education Organizations Fall 2021 Conference. Brodeur, K., Mrachko, A., & Huziak-Clark, T.
• Teaching the Coach: Professional Learning Experiences of Novice Coaches. American Educational Research Association Conference Presenter. Brodeur, K., Phillips, D., Mrachko, A., and Compton, B.