Instructional Coaching

“The most expensive, dynamic and influential teaching resource at school is the teacher, when they are secure in their practice, children excel."

Sugandha Mathur

With over two decades of experience as a qualified Early Years, Primary, and Secondary educator in both India and England, I bring a grounded, practical understanding of teaching and leadership in education. Through my own practitioner research I understand the critical role teachers and education leaders play on the engagement and development of young people.

I have worked closely with teachers, middle leaders, and senior leaders, leading teams, recruiting, and supporting the development of high-performing professionals.

Consulting with Schools and learning organisations I created a number of bespoke school improvement training programmes that provided in service professional develop to teachers.

"The Literacy progression from Early years till year 7 CPD workshop taught by Sugandha, provided an overview of the best practices adopted in various schools across the globe. The key learning for me was how to plan and design an integrated curriculum, a thematic approach and activities that can be included to make learning meaningful and fun."

School Teacher

Dr Anjali Sharma, India

"Sugandha's week long Rapid Reading Revolution programme provided me a deeper learning in all ways of teaching practice I do and how I can make my teaching practice more effective. What engaged me most was that it was an effective, meaningful and positive presentation on relevant areas of literacy. My key takeaways from the course were the knowledge of whole language approach, its characteristics, conditions to facilitate reading such as teacher support, child's will, physical and intellectual space in creative way and cooperative play. I also learnt to use different types of reading such as guided and shared reading and how we can do it in the class as a routine. I found the pre-primary resources really useful."

School Teacher,

Manjusha Prajapati, India

"The resources that Sugandha shared and the discussions about each child's case study gave me a better insight about the whole process. Tips to handle children in group work were very useful. Techniques to improve reading like syllabification, blending, re-reading, proved effective in improving the reading skills of the students. How to follow an integrated approach in the whole curriculum was also very helpful. Eventhough phonic drill had been a regular practice in my class since the beginning of the session, after rapid reading revolution course, I conducted this activity in a better way to improve the reading skills of students who needed more help. Another practice that became a regular part in the daily routine is the group reading/paired reading that has greatly improved reading skills in the students. I also became skillful enough to assess and select relevant and more appropriate books for students with different reading needs. "

School Teacher,

Preeti Gaur, India

My focus

• Strengthening teaching and learning practice by embedding evidence-informed practice.

• Building reflective, evidence-informed approaches

• Supporting leadership development

My Approach

• Structured, focused conversations

• Evidence-informed educational practice

• Reflective inquiry into real classroom and leadership contexts

My Clients

• Educators seeking purposeful, sustained development

• Middle and senior leaders in education

• Schools that need development of tailored programmes for CPD and INSET.