Instructional Coach & Professional Development Resources
Instructional Coach & Professional Development Resources
Coaches spend the week in other people's classrooms, then get asked for a model lesson by Friday. These downloads give you complete, editable units to co-plan from, demonstrate with and leave behind.
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Units to model, co-plan and hand over
A spread of literacy, math, science and humanities downloads that work as demonstration lessons across a building; tap any cover for the full preview, contents and price.
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon | Music Analysis, Media Literacy & Critical Thinking
Cryptography: Understanding Encryption – Computer Science Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
Classical & Multimodal Literary Formats – Opportunities and Challenges
Recommendation Algorithms and Filter Bubbles – Computer Science Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
Analysing a Painting – Method, Vocabulary and Exam Training
Why teachers use these
Why instructional coaches use these
A coaching cycle stalls when the teacher agrees with the goal but has nowhere to start on Monday. Handing over a finished unit turns an abstract conversation about questioning or gradual release into something the two of you can co-teach this week. It also gives a first-year teacher a worked example of what strong planning looks like on paper, which persuades far more effectively than another slide about planning in a staff meeting.
What's covered
What you can put in a teacher's hands
Each download is a full unit you can open, adapt and use as a coaching artefact.
- Lesson plan with clear timings
- Editable slide deck to model
- Four levels of student tasks
- Answer keys for quick marking
- Printable and digital versions
Make it work for everyone
Using tiered tasks in a coaching cycle
Tiered worksheets make differentiation visible, which is useful when a teacher says they differentiate but cannot show you how. Sit together, choose which two tiers go to which students and why, then look at the finished work in your next meeting. That conversation about actual student evidence moves practice faster than a rubric ever does.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Can I share a download with every teacher I coach?
No, and it is worth being straight about it. A purchase is licensed for the buying teacher's own classroom. If a whole department will use a unit, buy a copy per teacher. Many coaches buy one unit themselves for demonstration lessons and let departments decide whether to purchase for their own use.
Is there a PD course, video or facilitator guide included?
There is not. These are teaching resources: editable Word and PowerPoint files, worksheets, answer keys and lesson plans. Coaches build the session around them, usually by walking a group through one unit's structure, then having pairs adapt it for their own classes. The files change; there is nothing locked.
Which unit works best for a demonstration lesson?
Pick one outside the teacher's strongest subject knowledge so the focus stays on the moves you are modelling rather than the content. A unit with a strong slide sequence and clearly tiered practice gives you natural places to pause, name what you did and hand the class over mid-lesson.
Give teachers something to start with
Download a unit before your next coaching conversation.
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