Unleash the Power of Collaboration With Peer Coaching

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Unleash the Power of Collaboration With Peer
Coaching

• Shelee King George

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Table Introductions

• Introduce yourself to the others at your table.
  Find one thing you all have in common.
• Choose a table reporter who will introduce your
  table using the following prompt

Between us, we have _____ years working in
education . One thing we all have in common is
__.
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Welcome

• Former Special Education teacher and Technology
  Integration Specialist
• Program Manager for Peer Coaching Program
• Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and
  Technology

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Session Overview

• 21st Century Skills
• Effective Professional Development
• About the Peer Coaching Program
• Explore Coaching Skills

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Graffiti Wall

• Within your current educational role
• How do you promote, lead or participate in
  collaborative activities?

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Activity
Think of a time that you learned something from a
professional development experience that changed
your practice as an educator.
Think Share What made the experience so
effective? Compare
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Effective Professional Development

• On the job, job-embedded
• Long-term, ongoing
• Focused on classroom activities
• Highly collaborative environment
• Structured to offer chances to learn from others

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Classroom Impact
Type of Training Knowledge Mastery Skill Acquisition Classroom Application
Theory 85 15 5-10
PLUS
Practice 85 80 10-15
PLUS
Peer Coaching Study Teams Class Visits 90 90 80-90
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Think About Typical Technology Professional
Development

• Traditional training
• Focus on tools
• Hands on
• Lacks opportunity for reflection
• Think about student computer labs..and a computer
  teacher

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Misconceptions

• If you buy it, they will use it.
• If you buy it, it will change the way children
  learn.
• If you buy it, it develops 21st Century skills.

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Key to Effective Use of Technology

• The more powerful technology becomes, the more
  indispensable good teachers are.
• Fullan, 1998

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Infrastructure

• Investment in bandwidth but not human bandwidth
• Time to invest in the human infrastructure

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Our Dreams As Educators

• What skills do our students need for their
  future?

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21st Century Skills US

• Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
• Written and Oral Communications
• Teamwork/Collaboration
• Diversity
• Information Technology Application
• Leadership

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Real World Example

• Bellingham, WA Radio Ad 104.3 FM
• Wanted Traffic Reporter Assistant
• Must have skill with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and
  graphic manipulation 
• Also, must be able to multi-task and prioritize
  in a fast paced office environment

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Dreams to Reality

• Peer Coaching explores the kind of learning
  needed to prepare students with these skills.

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Reaching Our Dreams

• What skills and knowledge do TEACHERS need to
  offer this type of learning to their students?

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Teachers Need To (ISTE)

• Inspire student learning and creativity
• Design, develop digital age learning expectations
  and assessments
• Model Digital age work and learning
• Promote and model digital age citizenship
• Engage in professional growth and leadership

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Enabling 21st-Century Schools
Policy Leader
School Leaders

• Leadership
• Teaching/ Learning

Teacher Leaders
Teachers
Students
Teaching/ Learning
Available and emerging technologies
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Unleashing the Power
Think of two teachers who have the skills to
offer 21st Century Learning to their students.
Could they help others do the same?
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Why Peer Coaching?

• Simple method of professional development
• Builds teacher leaders
• Helps teachers share practices and learn from one
  another to engage students in powerful learning.
• Alignment - adds value to the local context

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Peer Coaching is.

• Collaborative
• A non-evaluative, non-prescriptive collaboration
• Based on the collaborating teachers wants and
  needs

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Peer Coaching Deliberately

• Develops shared leadership and professional
  learning community.
• Chooses topics of collaboration driven by the
  collaborating teacher
• Builds relationships between trusted peers
• Encourages the sharing of teacher practice and/or
  student results

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Peer Coaching Program at a Glance

• Eight day-long coach training sessions scheduled
  over a twelve month period
• Time for coaches to learn, practice, collaborate
  and reflect
• Blend of face-to-face and distance learning
  activities

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Peer Coaching Strands

• Coaching skills
• Tech integration
• Lesson Improvement

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Coaching Roles
Use tech to add value to a lesson
Consult
Plan learning activities
Reflect and offer feedback
Model
Non Evaluative Partnership
Collaborative conversations
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A Simple Idea

• Teachers sharing ideas
• Learning from one another
• Building relationships
• Deliberate collaboration about teaching and
  learning

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Coaching Traits

• What do you think are the desirable traits of a
  Peer Coach?

Shout Outs
Coach and School Attribute Handout
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The Trust Model
Credibility
Competence
Caring
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Communication Skills

• Why
• Communication Skills Card
• Just Listen
• A/B partners.
• A Speak one minute
• B Listen then paraphrase
• A Give feedback to B on their accuracy
• Probing Questions Exercise

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Coaching in Practice
Milwaukee Schools Catherine
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Chalk Talk A Silent ProtocolInsights I gained
about Peer Coaching and collaboration

• Use markers to respond silently
• Circle
• Add a note
• Connect ideas

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Peer Coaching Program
Quote
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Questions and Contact Info

• Closing thoughts
• Shelee King George
• skgeorge_at_PSCTLT.org
• Peer Coaching in South Africa
• Omashani Naidoo 0114035777
• omashani_at_schoolnet.org.za