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Coaching and Mentoring: GSRP Early Childhood Specialists
Moving Ahead TogetherAugust 15, 2012
Lansing, MI
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Contact Information
Christine Boisvert Maier, Ph.D.,
Early Childhood Preschool Specialist
Oakland Schools
248-209-2310
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Purpose of this segment:
•To provide supports as you engage in the coaching and mentoring role involved in ECS
•To provide opportunities to discuss and evaluate various tools for program improvement
•To discuss coaching / mentoring behaviors and attitudes that positively affect program improvement
•To provide resources to support your continuous improvement in the role of Coach / Mentor
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Guidelines for the GSRP Coaching / Mentoring role:
• The ECS is a catalyst for continuous quality improvement
• Specialized knowledge and sufficient time
• Understanding of the Michigan Early Childhood
Standards of Quality for Prekindergarten
• Training in the GSRP program’s chosen curriculum
• Time and schedule availability
• Attention to your own growth as a coach / mentor
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Drilling down to what’s most important…
Basic, central, and underlying goals for teaching staff in GSRP programs.
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So, you have your PQA and
Child Outcome Data…
How do you broach the
program improvement conversation?
What tools might you need?
What skills might you work to sharpen?
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Examples of Tools to Guide your Program Improvement Conversations:
• PQA Conversation (Feedback) forms
• Team Goal Planning worksheets (various types)
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GSRP / Work Life ASIDE…
Think of a time in your life when you were the recipient of excellent coaching / feedback / mentoring…
• Examples: Soft ball, sewing, skating, tutoring, skiing, knitting, gardening, driving, music, dance, basketball, cooking, running, personal trainer, etc…
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Questions for reflection…
1) What were your coach’s / mentor’s characteristics / behaviors? List some.
2) How did those behaviors, characteristics affect your relationship with your coach / mentor?
3) How did your relationship with your coach / mentor affect:• Your performance? • Your willingness to embrace improvement/change? • Your tendency to initiate your own improvement
efforts?
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Basic Adult Learning Principles
• RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS,
RELATIONSHIPS!!!
• Individualized teaching and learning
• Learner is part of the improvement planning
process – in a sense the learner drives the process
• Physical and emotional comfort during feedback
and consultation sessions
• Strength-based
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Why Strength-based?
•What does this mean?•What doesn’t it mean?_______________________________________________________________________________________
•What does it look like? •What does it sound like?
What connections can you make to high quality adult-child interactions?
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Jeree Pawl’s Golden Rule of Supervision
“Do unto others as you would have others do unto others.”
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Coaching Tips…
• In your work life, whether you were a coach /
mentor in the past, or the recipient of coaching /
mentoring, what tips or advice would you have
for others in that role?
• Think and Share (scribe to capture ideas)
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ECS Coaching Tips
Build relationships first and continuously
•Validate teachers’ efforts and strengths
•Build your own observation skills
•Communication skills – open communication / active
listening
•Focus on your role as helper and support – down play the
evaluator role
•Collaborate with staff on improvement plans [partnering vs.
overseeing]
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• Know the curriculum - Be prepared to model strategies in
the classroom
• Responsibility, trustworthiness, and accountability
• No judgment zone!
• Confidentiality – what happens in the coaching environment
stays in the coaching environment.
• Self-awareness of your own values and hot buttons
• Find support for yourself in your role as coach and ECS
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Questioning / Conversing
Two examples…
What are your thoughts…
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Listen and watch for communication…
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Listen and watch for communication…
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Coaching Resources
• Observation-Feedback Process (HighScope Educational Research
Foundation, Early Childhood 734-485-2000)
• Coaching Families and Colleagues in Early Childhood (Hanft, B. E.;
Rush, D. D.; Shelden, M. L.)
• The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook
(Dathan D. Rush, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, & M'Lisa L. Shelden, PT, Ph.D.)
• The Coach’s Guide (Heroman, Jablon, Stetson, & Aghayan (2009)
Teaching Strategies.
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Resources Continued
• Consultation in Early Childhood Settings (Buysse, V. &
Wesley, P.)
• The Three Rs of Leadership (Julie K. Biddle, Ph.D.)
• Blueprint for Action (Paula Jorde Bloom)
• Giving and Receiving Feedback (Patti Hathaway, CSP)
• The NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct (NAEYC)
• Supplement for Early Childhood Program Administrators
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Quotes
“How you are is as important as what you do.”
(Jeree Pawl)
“I don’t care what you know, if I don’t know that you care.” (Author unknown)
“What matters most is how you see yourself.”
(found in the work of Janet Gonzalez-Mena)
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Where Can You Go for Support in your ECS Role?
Talk at your tables about this question.
Ask each other where you might find support.
Full group discussion
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What are your questions, comments, concerns?
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Contact Information
Christine Boisvert Maier, Ph.D.,
Early Childhood Preschool Specialist
Oakland Schools
248-209-2310
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