Chapter 1: A Guide to the Resource Book

Audience of the resource book

The main intended audience of the resource book is university and school level coaches who plan to train educational practitioners to form leadership teams and build their capacity to lead sustainable school-based improvement. It offers the needed guidelines, resources and materials for adopting and implementing the TAMAM Capacity Building Program.

1. A Guide to the Resource Book

A- Purpose of the Resource Book

B- Audience of the Resource book (This resource book is addressed to coaches and serves as a guide for them to work with school teams)

C- Overview of the Resource Book

D- Guidelines for using the Resource book (A guide for the coaches to coach school teams and how to do it)

2. TAMAM as an Educational Movement in the Arab Region

A- Challenges in the Arab World

B- A shift in the existing paradigm: The TAMAM theory of change

C- TAMAM: An educational movement for impactful school-based reform in the Arab region

3. Building Capacity for Sustainable School-Based Improvement

A- Establishing School University Partnerships

B- Effective professional development for professional learning

C- The Coach as a Mentor

D- The coach as an inquirer

E- Participative evaluation and accountability

4. Schools as Self-Renewing, Innovative and Professional Communities

A- The Social Transformation Role of The Educational Institution

B- Schools as self-renewing with sustainable improvement

5. The Targeted Learning Outcomes

A- The TAMAM pillars’ competencies

B- The process of initiating and leading School Based Improvement

C- Motivation for engaging in school-based improvement

6. The TAMAM Job Embedded Learning Experience

A- Characteristics of the School Based Improvement Journey

B- Stations of the journey

C- Outputs from Participating in the School Improvement Journey

7. Coaches Roles and Responsibilities

A- The TAMAM Coaches Characteristics

B- Roles and responsibilities of coaches

8. Setting the Stage for Initiating the TAMAM Capacity Building Program

A- Understanding the school broader community: Becoming informed about the country, ministry of education of that country, services from NGOS, local government entities, current and potential funders for school improvement.

B- Selecting school team members

C- Identify the school teams’ learning needs

D- The Coaching approach in TAMAM

9. Planning and Implementing the TAMAM Capacity Building Program

A- Design the Learning Experience

B- Sustain High Motivation for Leading Improvement

D- Plan for implementation

E- Implement and Monitor the Coaching Plan

F- Plan for evaluation

G- Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Coaching Plan

10. Evaluating the Effectiveness of TAMAM’s Capacity Building Program

A- TAMAM’s Evaluation Goals

B- TAMAM’s Evaluation General Questions

C- Evaluation Criteria: Evaluating process and impact

D- Data Evaluation methods for Data Collection and Instruments

E- Data Management and Analysis

F- Drawing Conclusions and recommendations

11. The TAMAM Coaching Approach: Coaching the TAMAM wa

This chapter is a narration of the approach adopted in coaching in TAMAM along with several tips to be used by coaches for ensuring a proper and impactful experience

12. Research and Knowledge Production in TAMAM

A- Introduction

B- Documentation

C- Forms of Knowledge Production

D- Dissemination of TAMAM Knowledge

PROLOGUE: EMERGING IMPACT AND NEXT STEPS

A- Expanding the Capacity Building Program:

a. Building Capacity for Organizational Development at The School Level

b. Building School Community partnerships: The Socio-Cultural Approach

c. Building Student Leadership

B- Establishing a Professional Network

C- Preparing the training for trainers’ modules.

D- Developing Research Partnerships

Appendix

– Appendix 1: The Modules (NOT accessible)

A- The TAMAM Competencies

B- The Journey Stations

– Appendix 2: TAMAM Pillars and Elements- student profile- coaches’ competencies

– Appendix 3: Journey figures

– Appendix 4: Data Collection Tools

– Appendix 5: Data Analysis Tools (including master rubric for pillars and journey)- along with the tips for data analysis

– Appendix 6: Tools for Documentation for Teams

– Appendix 7: Tools for Documentation for Coaches