T4FourDayTraining

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Innovative Teachers Network, Peer Coaching Program Website
Note: it might be a brand name, but it is a free program and they are not trying to sell you anything.
T4 Ning

8 - 8:45 a.m. (25 mins)

Sessions 1 Overview
Session 1: 1

Participants will:
  • Identify who participants will coach, when they will meet, major roles and responsibilities, and the school’s resources available to support their coaching programs (by completing a Coaching Plan with their principals).

 
  • Identify the attributes of effective school-based professional development.
  • Describe key research that supports ongoing, collaborative staff development for teachers.
  • Create a Coaching Plan by setting goals related to the needs of collaborating teachers that are aligned with their school’s improvement plan. 
 8:50 – 9:20 (30 mins)Why Peer Coaching?
Session 1: 2
Session One Ning Group discussions

9:20 - 9:45 (25 mins)Coaching Roles & Responsibilities
Session 1: 3
Handbook: Web Site Navigation, p. 2 - fill in all your information

Handout: Roles and Responsibilities of a Coach
Handbook: Coaching Cycle, p. 3-4

Coaching Conversations Video (ning) and the Coaching Cycle

 
9:45 – 10:15 (30 mins)		Coaching Plan 
Session 1:4
What is Peer Coaching and School Readiness How do you choose Peer Coaches?

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Handbook p. 5-7 Coaching Goals Planning Worksheet

 10:15-10:25
(10 mins)		 Break
 
10:30 - 11:00 (30 mins)
 Meet & Greet
Session 1: 5
 Meet & Greet Discussion in Session One Ning Group
 11:00-12:00
(1 hr)

  LunchTroxell Training with Document Cameras
 12-12:20Setting Group Norms
Session 1: 6

Session 1 Evaluation
 Discuss important norms that will create the best and most focused climate for this training.  Enter your group Norms in this Google Form

We will look at results in the spreadsheet once everyone is done and make a Wordle to determine our priorities

 Session Two Overview

Participants will:
  • Explain the Coaching Cycle and the goals of the program by creating a brochure to introduce coaching at a school.
  • Lead a planning meeting that determines a starting point for working with a teacher and use a worksheet to keep a record of the discussion.
 
  • Identify resources that match the curriculum focus of staff and post them to online Coaching Portfolios.
  • Demonstrate effective communication skills that promote discussion about instruction by helping a teacher define a project or plan a learning activity that uses technology to enhance instruction.
 12:20-1:20
(1 hr)		 Explore Communication Skills
Session 2: 2		 Seinfeld & Blackberries
This is one of my favorite components of the Peer Coaching Model

 Technology Session & Finding a Hook
 Diigo, Annotating the Web and Social Networking

Explore the Starting Points section of the ITN site


  Closure: parking lot, online reflection, self evaluation
 Reflecting on my learning form Handout or from downloaded files
   


Lesson Design Day
 8:00-8:10  Review Day One, Reactions, Use of ning overnight  
 8:15-9:15
(1 hr)
Define the Program in your school
Session 2: 3		Handout: Planning Matrix
Handbook: Coaching Goals Planning p. 5-7
Handbook:  Peer Coaching Plan p.8-9

Upload your plan to your blog section in the Ning
 9:15-9:45 (30 mins) Planning Meeting
Session 2: 4

Handout:  Collaboration Log
 9:45-9:55    Break 
10:00-11:00 (1:10 hr)
Session 2: 7
 Create Portfolio / Find a Hook

Building up your technology tool kit.  Explore Starting Points in the ITN Site

Bookmark your favorites in Diigo, share them with some friends.  Post the very best in the Favorite Finds section of the Ning

11-12
 Lunch 
 Session 3:  Lesson Design

Participants will:

  • Generate criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of a lesson.
  • Analyze two lessons to determine how four criteria for effective lesson design are included in the lessons: connection to standards, student engagement, task authenticity, and technology integration.
  • Identify the relevance and usefulness of using conflict as a resource to coaching.
  • Practice using coaching skills and helping collaborating teachers improve their lessons.
  • Analyze how lesson improvements may have positive impacts on student learning.
  • Identify resources that demonstrate good lesson design and that match the curriculum focus of collaborating teachers and post them to online Coaching Portfolios.
 
 12:00-2:00   Sessions 3
 Handbook:  Clock Partners
  Review Promising Practices (Scavenger Hunt; Chalk Talk) 
 2:15         Google Docs extension