The Gradual Increase of Responsibility Model: Coaching for Teacher Change

This study examines the gradual increase of responsibility (GIR) model for teacher coaching (Collet, 2008 Collet, V. Coaching today's teachers: Mentoring using new literacies. Paper presented at the 2008 National Reading Conference. December. [Google Scholar]), an adaptation of Pearson and Gallagher's (1983) Pearson, P. D. and Gallagher, M. C. 1983. The instruction of reading comprehension. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 8: 317–344. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] Gradual Release of Responsibility model. In GIR, instructional coaches model, make recommendations, ask probing questions, affirm teachers' appropriate decisions, and praise in order to provide decreasing scaffolding, which moves teachers toward interdependence and collaboration.