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Implementing Peer Coaching in PLTs
Teacher Leadership for High Student
Growth
Sara OverbyWCPSS Coordinating Teacher for Secondary Literacy, [email protected]
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Teachers who have not prepared themselves to be in a constant state of flux need to reevaluate their choice of profession.
A teacher who is inflexible will not survive very long without burning out.
Melissa Kelly, Learn to be flexible, 2013
Learn to be flexible!
Change Our Thinking
Teachers need accessible opportunities and models
Jean M. Becker “Peer Coaching for Improvement of Teaching and Learning” http://teachersnetwork.org/tnli/research/growth/becker.htm
Improve Professional Practice
Improve Student Learning
for collaboration, sharing of ideas, feedback and assistance with their practice
What Kind of Professional Learning Makes a Difference in Student Learning?
What percent…5% of learners will transfer a new skill into their practice as a result of getting information about new research?10% will transfer a new skill into their practice after information about research AND with a demonstration at a workshop?20% will transfer a new skill into their practice after information, demonstration AND with practice during a workshop?25% will transfer a new skill into their practice with information, a demonstration, workshop practice AND feedback from workshop presenter?90% will transfer a new skill into their practice with information, demonstration, practice and feedback within the training, and coaching from peers at their school?
Dr. Bruce Joyce, "Staff Development Awareness Conference," Columbia, SC, January 1987.
What is Peer Coaching?a confidential process two or more professional
colleagues work together reflect on current practicesexpand, refine, and build new
skillsshare ideas and provide feedbackteach one anotherconduct classroom researchor solve problems in the
workplacePam Robbins, A Definition of Peer Coaching,
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/61191149/chapters/A-Definition-of-Peer-Coaching.aspx
What would you want your peer coaching to look like, act like, sound like, feel like in your PLT?
As a Teacher?As a Coach?
Key FeaturesLots of different labels… but ALL Peer Coaching focuses on Collaborative developmentRefinementSharing Craft of teaching
Peer Coaching has nothing to do withEvaluationRemediation to “fix” teachers
Pam Robbins, A Definition of Peer Coaching, http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/61191149/chapters/A-Definition-of-Peer-Coaching.aspx
“a dress rehearsal before the final performance.”
“a time when you can take risks and try out new ideas, instructional strategies, or different approaches to the curriculum and discuss the results with a trusted colleague.”
Coaching CycleIdentif
y
Learn
Practice
Refine
Reflect
1. Inviting Teacher2. Coaching Teacher3. Goal of teaching
practice4. Current reality5. Future Greatness6. How Coach can
contribute7. What Coach is not
being asked to contribute
8. Observation/Data Tool
WCPSS Observation Tool What is worthy of
Coaching? Inviting Teacher Coaching Teacher Goal of teaching
practice Current reality Future Greatness How Coach can
contribute What Coach is not
being asked to contribute
Observation/Data Tool
Coaching CycleIdentif
y
Learn
Practice
Refine
Reflect Coaching Teacher
Clarifies the key issuesSynthesizes the concernsSimplifies the issueProvides researchExplains best practiceModels practice
Inviting TeacherAgrees on observation/data toolUses tool when observing Coach
BothExplore DataDiscuss Implications
Model and observe
Pinwheel
Discussions
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/high-school-literature-lesson-plan
Explore Data, Implications
Coaching Conversation
Inviting Teacher: what I sawCoaching Teacher: Active listening
Coaching Teacher second: what the data saysInviting Teacher: Asks clarifying questions
Coach: I-statementsQuestions before answersReflections and self-analysis before
suggestionsAvoid Fix Its
Coaching CycleIdentif
y
Learn
Practice
Refine
Reflect
Inviting TeacherImplements in classroomAllows observer/dataVideotapes selfConsiders evidence
Coaching TeacherObservesHelps unpack dataUses Active ListeningResponds to concerns
Model and observe
Strategies for Student Centered Discussionhttps://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/strategies-for-student-centered-discussion
Explore Data, ImplicationsCoaching Conversation
Inviting Teacher: what I sawCoaching Teacher: Active listening
Coaching Teacher second: what the data saysInviting Teacher: Asks clarifying questions
Coach: I-statementsQuestions before answersReflections and self-analysis before
suggestionsAvoid Fix Its
Coaching CycleIdentif
y
Learn
Practice
Refine
ReflectOptions: Next Gear? Or Different Road?Do I want to try again?Do I want more information/ tools?Do I want to observe Coach’s modeling again?Do I want to work on something else and come back to this?
Research shows…
Peer Coaching has these payoffsIncrease of student learningFacilitate trust-building among colleaguesUse as a problem-solving vehicleCreate a forum for addressing instructional
problemsIncrease discussion of professional research and
professional practiceEncourage reflective practice and shared goalsReduce isolation among teachersSupport and assist new and beginning teachers in
their practiceFrom Jean M. Becker “Peer Coaching for Improvement of Teaching and Learning” http://teachersnetwork.org/tnli/research/growth/becker.htm