Year+2+Coaching

===Year two of Peer Coaching will be a journey of self improvement of our coaching skills, technology integration practices and lesson improvement strategies. You will refl ect on your coaching and collaboration skills with your peers. You will help us define the characteristics of an effective coaching program and develop some strategies, tools, and resources to help our 1st year coaches.===

=Session 2= Wall Street Book review Article on Education Reform When Nice Won't Suffice -.Learning Forward

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Research and Current Articles on Coaching
ISTE White Paper on Coaching www.iste.org/learn/coaching-white-paper.aspx

[|Coaching Whitepaper_digital.pdf]

Technology Tools and Resources
Top Technology Tools for Your Classrooms 2011 Identify your top ten technology tools for your classroom this year. [|https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiytWqgCZjxwdHVnRWVFZDQzR0M2aWRodnJfd3lWNUE&hl=en_US#gid=0]

‍Rank your favorite tech tools
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Spend some time exploring the Resources for Coaches page (menu on left)
How can technology make the following tasks easer or better?
 * Gathering information ||  ||   ||
 * Organizing Information ||  ||   ||
 * Communicating ||  ||   ||
 * Collaborating ||  ||   ||
 * Co-Creating/ Expression ||  ||   ||
 * Differentiating Instruction ||  ||   ||

Tools to focus your conversations on improving lessons to impact student performance:
Learning Activity Checklist [|Learning_Activity_Checklist.doc] Coaching Skills Cue Card [|Coaching_Skills_Cue_Card.doc]

[|Five Lesson Improvement Questions.doc]

Lesson Improvement Template to guide your conversation around key lesson components: [|Lesson Improvement Template.doc], Assessing lesson Design Template [|Assess Lesson DesignTemplate blank.doc], [|Lesson_Improvement_Process_Rubric.doc]

Lesson Enhancement Comparison Doc. [|Lesson+Enhancement+Comparison.docx]

Collaboration Logs:
WI Peer Coaching Collaboration Log in [|Your Name Log+and+Planning+Worksheet.xlsx] Excel:

Word Clean Copy: Please change the name to: your name collaboration log when you save the document: [|Word_Clean_Collaboration_Log.doc]

To Do List:
Coach Coach Coach Select a Collaboration log or worksheet to log your coaching activities and time. Talk Talk Talk to other teachers and principals about your coaching experiences. Post your Goals and time management plan to the discussion forum on this page. After Nov. 21 post to the second discusssion forum Coaching focused or light. Post your current collaboration log to wiki prior to Jan meeting.


 * Name || 0Collaboration Log (Please make sure you rename the log with your name in title) ||