1. LFcoachingOnline™ supports teachers who use TaskBuilderOnline™ and eLearningTeacher.com.™
   
   
2. LFcoachingOnline™ provides an online coach to respond to a maximum of four email messages each month that are initiated by participating teachers. Additional teachers and resource consultants can be networked into the coaching process through the TaskBuilderOnline™ or eLearningTeacher.com™ integrated email system. Moreover, email messages may be copied to any school official or stakeholder that the teacher and coach agree to involve in the coaching process.
   
   
3. LFcoachingOnline™ gives prospective, beginning, and experienced teachers responsive and personalized support in any of several possible areas:
   
   • Learning and using TaskBuilderOnline™ and eLearningTeacher.com™
   • Selecting content standards as the focus of daily lessons, tasks, or tests
   • Aligning content standards, teaching practices, and assessments or tests
   • Developing real world settings for lessons, tasks, or assessments
   • Benchmarking successful teaching practices for improving student learning
   • Developing and scoring selected and constructed response assessments
   • Analyzing and using results to improve teaching and student learning
   • Monitoring Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) of students
   • Posting standards-based instruction and assessment tasks on a school web site
   

1. At the beginning of each month, the teacher develops an action plan for a standards-based instruction task that will be developed, taught, and analyzed and sends the action plan to the coach for review and feedback;
   
   
2. The coach reviews the action plan and provides comments and suggestions;
   (First email message exchange completed)
   
   
3. The teacher develops the standards-based instruction task and sends a draft copy to the coach for review and feedback;
   
   
4. The coach reviews the draft task and provides written commendations, suggestions, and questions for improvement within the draft task;
   (Second email message exchange completed)
   
   
5. The teacher addresses the coach’s feedback by revising the task and, then, teaches the task and scores the results;
   
   
6. The teacher summarizes the results and sends them to the coach for review and feedback;
   
   
7. The coach reviews the results and teacher comments and offers commendations and suggestions for improving the task for the next time this task is taught and for monitoring student progress on the standards that were taught;
   (Third email message exchange completed)
   
   
8. At the end of the month, the teacher reflects about the following items and sends the responses to the coach:
   
   • What has been achieved during the past month?
   • What was intended but not achieved?
   • What are the priority instructional goals that must be addressed in the next month?
   • How can LFcoachingOnline™ assist next month?
   
   
9. The coach reviews the teacher reflections and suggestions and proposes a mutually supportive approach to coaching the teacher during the next month.
   (Fourth email message exchange completed)

NOTE: All information exchanged in LFcoachingOnline™ is absolutely confidential between the coach and the teacher unless both parties agree to involve third parties such as school principals, other teachers, or instructional consultants.

1. Helps teachers to control the focus, pace, and sequence of learning about new standards, teaching practices, and student achievement trends in the context of their daily work schedule;
   
   
2. Provides focused and ongoing help to improve student achievement through quality teaching;
   
   
3. Increases contact with other professionals through online networking facilitated by a LFcoachingOnline™ coach;
   
   
4. Provides a way to monitor the AYP of students in their classrooms;
   
   
5. Results in a set of school prototype instruction and assessment tasks for other teachers to benchmark within and outside their schools.
   

For prospective teachers LFcoachingOnline™:

1. Provides the help of an experienced teacher to learn how to plan and carry out standards-based instruction and assessment tasks;
   
   
2. Increases contact with other prospective and experienced teachers through online networking facilitated by a LFcoachingOnline™ coach;
   
   
3. Results in a set of standards-based instruction and assessment tasks for use in a career portfolio and during the first year of employment.
   

For school principals LFcoachingOnline™:

1. Delivers an ongoing, systematic approach to professional development to support school and instructional improvement at a lower cost than traditional methods;
   
   
2. Provides an effective way to assist all teachers in the school to plan, teach, and monitor the AYP of students to meet school and State performance standards;
   
   
3. Offers a way to communicate regularly with all teachers about the status of standards-based instruction and assessment in the school;
   
   
4. Makes available a password-protected online portfolio for supporting teachers to collect and organize work samples that relate to personnel evaluation requirements.