Effective Teacher Professional Development from the Learning Policy. Institute (June ... Safe Environment Feedback. Twen
The Impact of Coaching October 2017 Steve Barkley
The Impact of Coaching Coaching should be part of every educator’s experience…both as a provider and receiver. Coaching among educators should lead to increased student success. Explore how to use peer, instructional and administrator coaching to generate teacher learning that impacts student learning. Assess the value of starting or deepening coaching in your practice and your school culture.
Teaching in a Learning Community Teaching is a Team Sport
Content Focus Active Learning Collaboration Modelling Coaching Feedback and Reflection Sustained Duration
Effective Teacher Professional Development from the Learning Policy Institute (June 2017) by Linda Darling-Hammond, Maria E. Hyler, Madelyn Gardner, and Danny Espinoza
KEY ELEMENTS • • • • •
Knowledge Model Practice Observation with Feedback Ongoing Coaching
Knowledge 1. Why Research Formal/Informal 2. How to Complex to Simple
Model Environment Skills
Practice
Safe Environment Feedback Twenty to thirty repetitions over an eight- to ten-week period.
Two Opportunities for Observation with Feedback Practice Environment: ex. Workshops Classroom Situations: ex. Coaching
Joyce/Showers Research Training Components and Attainment of Outcomes in Terms of Percent of Participants — OUTCOMES — Components
Knowledge
Skill
Transfer
(thorough)
(strong)
(executive implementation)
Study of Theory
10
5
0
Demonstrations
30
20
0
Practice
60
60
5
Peer Coaching
95
95
95
Beverly Joyce and Bruce Showers (2002) Student Achievement Through Staff Development 3rd Edition. Ch. 5: Designing Training and Peer Coaching: Our Needs for Learning. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Gordon’s Skill Development Ladder The Art of Teaching
Unconsciously Talented
Unconsciously Unskilled
Consciously Unskilled
Unconsciously Skilled Consciously Skilled
Gordon’s (1974) Skill Development Ladder
Learning Dip Later
Now
The coach is a cheerleader during this difficult time.
Creating a Coaching Culture In a coaching culture, most staff use a coaching approach in their daily life – with each another, and with external stakeholders and customers. A true coaching culture is just ‘part of the way we do things around here’. But it’s not all motherhood and apple pie. A coaching culture is about delivering results, improving performance and making the most of people’s potential. The emphasis is on delivering results and making each other (and the wider organisation) stronger and more capable. It’s NOT about having coaching conversations for their own sake, or as a diversion from other activities! Ed Parsloe
The Coach of Coaching The instructional coach can assist teachers in forming coaching connections for peer coaching: • common professional growth goals • within PLCs • shared student concerns
