Using AI in Instructional Coaching: Best Practices & Tools

Coaching thrives on relationships, reflection, and meaningful dialogue. Instructional coaches support teachers in refining their practice and improving student learning. Traditionally, this work has been built on in-person conversations and observations. But with AI becoming more advanced, it’s starting to shape coaching in new ways.

When used well, AI can enhance - not replace - the human side of coaching, offering powerful insights and tools that help coaches and teachers work smarter and more effectively.

Getting Started
6 Learning Hours
Benefits
  • Learn how AI tools enhance instructional and peer coaching without replacing human connection
  • Explore potential AI-driven coaching scenarios and key forces shaping its role
  • Address concerns around privacy, transparency, and responsible AI use in coaching
  • Learn effective AI prompts, lesson analysis, and strategy development
  • Apply AI to goal setting, strategy identification, and instructional adaptations within coaching frameworks
This course is for
Price

$490 (+ GST)

This price is for an individual registering on an open-enrolment course.


Savings are available for organisations who wish to run this course for an in-house group.

Please email info@growthcoaching.com.au to request a quote or discuss this further.

About Using AI in Instructional Coaching: Best Practices & Tools

This 1-day course dives into how AI tools can amplify instructional and peer coaching by enhancing- not replacing - human connection. You’ll explore AI-driven coaching scenarios, mastering effective prompts for lesson analysis, strategy development, and goal setting.

Practical activities will guide you through using AI to identify instructional adaptations and refine teaching approaches. Along the way, you'll engage with critical considerations around privacy, transparency, and ethical use, ensuring you’re equipped to deploy AI responsibly within coaching frameworks.

Structure
  • Explore different AI tools and their applications in coaching.
  • Learn how AI can enhance—not replace—human-centered coaching practices.
  • Understand different coaching models and where AI fits in.
  • Examine three possible future scenarios for AI in coaching.
  • Identify key social, economic, and technological forces shaping AI’s impact.
  • Discuss strategies for adapting to AI-driven changes in education.
  • Navigate concerns around plagiarism, intellectual property, and transparency.
  • Address privacy and responsible AI use in coaching.
  • Recognise the risks of misinformation and bias in AI-generated content.
  • Craft effective AI prompts to get useful insights.
  • Use AI for lesson analysis through video, audio, and transcription tools.
  • Learn how to discern between helpful and inaccurate AI-generated suggestions.
  • Leverage AI to identify teaching strategies and develop checklists.
  • Understand AI’s limitations and when human expertise is necessary.
  • Explore AI’s problem-solving potential in adapting instruction.
  • Apply the Seven Success Factors to AI-enhanced instructional coaching.
  • Use AI within the Impact Cycle (Identify, Learn, Improve) to support coaching decisions.
  • Explore how AI can support peer coaching for collaboration and growth.
Learning Design

At GCI, we believe that we act our way into learning rather than learn our way into acting. With this principle in mind, all of our courses have a strong emphasis on practice.

GCI courses are designed by educators for educators with a commitment to interactive and engaging learning experiences delivered by skilled facilitators with extensive experience in education.

When we are engaged in praxis we are reflecting in action – taking what we are learning and applying it in real-life situations. Our in-person and online courses enable praxis through a ‘coaching approach’ to facilitation combined with a range of thoughtfully designed adult learning experiences including:

  • individual and group reflection activities
  • co-operative learning tasks
  • practise opportunities using real workplace scenarios
  • modelling
  • observation and feedback
  • debrief sessions

The option of a spaced learning design consisting of live interactive workshops complemented by self-paced modules on our Learning Management System (LMS) provides the opportunity for participants to apply skills and techniques in their context between sessions.

The Using AI in Instructional Coaching: Best Practices & Tools course is currently available online only, in a range of formats:

  • One full-day
  • Two half-days spaced
  • Three 2-hour workshops spread over a number of weeks
Certification

A GCI Certificate is issued to each individual completing this course.

Pricing

$490 (+ GST)

This price is for an individual registering on an open-enrolment course.


Savings are available for organisations who wish to run this course for an in-house group.

Please email info@growthcoaching.com.au to request a quote or discuss this further.

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