Develop Understanding of the Content, Conduct a quick content talk-through with the teacher to check understanding of standards., Develop Effective Lesson Plans 101, Review alignment between objective, instruction, and assessments with the teacher., Internalize Existing Lesson Plans, Pause frequently to give bite-sized feedback and ask the teacher to try again. Annotate the lesson plan with the teacher to mark likely struggle points., Write an Exemplar: Set the bar for excellence, Sit with the teacher and co-create a model response for the day’s assessment., Independent Practice , Observe independent practice and script student responses or error patterns., Academic Monitoring 101, Model how to give in-the-moment feedback to a student with errors. Analyze exit tickets together and identify reteach or grouping needs., Guide Discourse 101, Script 3–5 high-leverage discussion questions with the teacher. Model how to press for reasoning (“What evidence supports that?”)., Activate Knowledge , Suggest a strong activation of knowledge prompt and then have the teacher rehearse theirs., Model, Demonstrate a short segment of modeling during a rehearsal or co-teach portion. Provide sentence frames and visual modeling templates. Ask the teacher to deliver the same modeling sequence with immediate feedback., Universal Prompts , Teach the teacher 4–6 prompts and coach them on when to use each one to push students to deepen their reasoning. Post the prompts on a coaching checklist for the teacher to reference. Use video exemplars to illustrate strong modeling. , Strategically Call on Students, Review the class roster with the teacher to plan intentional cold calls. Model effective cold call followed by a scaffold or extension., Stretch It , Provide a bank of extension questions aligned to the skill or standard. Practice delivering analytical questions during rehearsal. Observe class and record missed opportunities..

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