Session+7

**Introduction** //What have you learned about coaching as you have collaborated with another teacher to prepare or implement a new learning activity? What questions do you still have?// This activity will employ a protocol that will lead to deeper insights into the value of coaching and collaboration.
 * Session 7 ||
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Getting Started **Part A: 3-2-1** **Step 1**

**Step 2**
 * Think about your coaching work and take a minute to write:
 * 3 things you have done related to coaching since we last met.
 * 2 questions you still have about coaching.
 * 1 insight you have related to your coaching work.

**Step 3**
 * Stand up and make eye contact with someone in the room that you don’t talk to every day.
 * Walk over to your partner.
 * Take turns sharing three things you have done related to coaching since we met last.
 * You will have two minutes to share your ideas.

**Step 4**
 * Move to a new partner.
 * Share two questions you still have about coaching.
 * You will have two minutes to share your ideas.

**Part B: Using Reflection and Analysis Protocol** In groups of three, use a protocol to reflect and debrief on what made a collaboration effective. As part of this exercise, you are going to use communication skills such as active listening, clarifying, and probing questions to discuss your coaching work. If you follow the protocol steps carefully, the protocol should guide your discussion and help you focus on analyzing your work.
 * Move to a new partner.
 * Share one insight you have relating to your coaching work.
 * You will have two minutes to share your ideas.

**Conclusion** Working as a whole group, discuss the following questions:
 * 1) Use the [[file:Reflection_and_Analysis_Protocol(1).doc]], the [[file:Lesson_Improvement_Process_Rubric.doc]], the[[file:Learning_Activity_Checklist.doc]], and the [[file:Lesson Analysis Chart.doc]] handouts to complete your task.
 * 2) You will also need an improved lesson that resulted from a collaborative experience with a teacher.
 * 3) Move into groups of three. Your facilitator will introduce the protocol and ask you to write up your successes.
 * 4) Each team will follow the protocol to reflect upon its coaching work.

**Begin Creating the Coaching Chronicles Intelligent Chatter Piece** **Introduction** //How have you been successful with coaching in your school?//
 * How did using the protocol help or hinder the discussion?
 * In what ways can you see this protocol being used to evaluate learning activities in your school?
 * What additional information do you need to use the protocol with groups in your school?
 * Could students use this protocol? ||  ||

In this activity, you will:
 * [[image:http://us.partnersinlearningnetwork.com/MyNotebook/PublishingImages/PeerCImages/blue_orange_cycle_graphic.gif caption="Blue-Orange Coaching Cycle"]] || As a coach, you have been encouraged to go through all the stages of the Coaching Cycle.
 * Reflect on your coaching and celebrate your success (as in the Reflect, Debrief part of the Coaching Cycle).
 * Collaborate in teams to tell your coaching story using text, multimedia, photos, and other elements.
 * Contribute a collaborative artifact to the Intelligent Chatter page on our Peer Coaching wiki.
 * Help other educators learn more about coaching for technology integration. ||

You will be documenting some of your coaching stories and successes by creating an artifact to share your stories with others. You will develop an artifact to share or showcase some aspect of Peer Coaching and your work as a coach for the Coaching: Intelligent Chatter page. This artifact could focus on some aspect of coaching;
 * communication skills,
 * lesson improvement or technology resources, or,
 * it could focus on an experience or reflection on the impact that coaching has had on you, your collaborating teacher or your school.

These artifacts can be in any web based format featuring examples of collaboration and success stories, articles, slideshows, videos, collages, tips for coaches, case studies, photos, posters, advertisements, web/wiki page, coaching toolkit, resources from your coaching experiences, etc.. Plan to be creative and have some fun. Some tools you may want to consider to create your artifact: @Sharing Evidence of Your Work.

These will be shared on our WI Peer Coaching wiki and with administrators, Peer Ed coaching program officials, WEMTA conference attendees and state/federal evaluations.

**Getting Started** Part A: Review Sample

**Introduction** //What are some resources you could use to connect students' work to the local and global communities?// Having students collaborate with students in other locations, with their community, or with outside experts is one clear way to give projects real meaning in the students’ lives and to make learning activities authentic. **Getting Started**
 * |||||| Page Content **Connecting to Classroom Practice**
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**Part A: Review Resources**
 * 1) Discuss the value of students collaborating with others and publishing a product that has significance outside of the classroom.
 * How does it impact your work when you know it will be published?
 * How is your work impacted when you know you have to reflect the ideas of the other teams in your work?


 * 1) View the Monarch Video to learn how teacher Frances Koontz uses technology to share observations of the migration of the monarch butterfly with students in other countries engaged in the same type of study. As you watch, write notes to yourself about the ways she connects her classroom to the local community and to the larger global community. **[]**

**Part B: Explore Resources** **Projects T** **eachers Can Join or Replicate**
 * 1) Discuss:
 * How did this teacher connect classroom work to a local and global community? How did this impact student learning?
 * How could a teacher at a higher grade level include these same strategies to connect classroom work locally and globally?


 * Intel Elements Courses:**
 * **Project Based Learning**
 * **Collaboration**
 * **Assessment in the 21st Century Classroom**

4 A's Activity
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