Coaching JourneyContinued

Kaye ApplebyAnne Yeager

London OntarioMarch 23, 2010

Establishing Norms• Start and end on time

• Electronic devices suspended until break

• Fearless listening and speaking

• Respect workshop materials

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Overview of the day

Learn what is new!

Some examples of successful coaching or initiatives

Concerns related to coaching or other initiatives

Sharing with others, networking

Identify some next steps for your team.

The Parking Lot

Cheers Fears

Un-clears

What is going well?

The initial conversation …

Find someone you don’t know.

Each take 2 minutes to share

a “good news” story.

Use your coaching strategies and stems.

Coaching Strategies and Stems

• Paraphrasing• Do I understand that…?• In other words …?• It sounds like …?

• Clarifying • What do you mean by …?• Is it always the case that …?• How is…different from….?

Put a lens on Questioning and DI

What’s new?• WINS resources focused on Grades K – 8,

including open questions and parallel tasks • Gap Closing focused on Grade 6 Number Sense

(1 hour)

• Interactive White Board Lessons: TIPS 2.0

try these out! (grades 7-10) (½ hour)• CLIPS – the latest updates – bring your

computer (Integers) (½ hour)

Learn What is New

First ½ h Open questions and parallel tasks

IWB TIPS lessons

CLIPS

Second ½ h WINS and Gap Closing

IWB TIPS lessons

(repeat)

CLIPS

Return to your board group

• Report to your group what you saw/learned.

• “lens” report: connect to Questioning or DI

What needs attention?

• What is/should be the role of the coach?

• “I don’t have time/need to be coached.”

• Federation/union issues?

• What about a department that is “stuck”?

What else needs attention?

• At your table, discuss other issues you are having as a coach or with other initiatives.

• Select 1 or 2 issues.

• Whole group share.

Graffiti

• Move to 1 station with chart paper. Select a recorder.

• Together brainstorm ideas or strategies to help address the issue.

• After 8 minutes (on cue) move to the next station, read suggestions, and add some of your own.

• Repeat….

Coaches Wiki

http://gains-coaches.wikispaces.com

EduGAINS resourceshttp://www.edugains.ca/

Sample Roving Report

• KPRDSB

• Sandy Fischl

• Grade 9 Applied EQAO Preparation

What are the Lesson Goals?

What teacher actions promote student learning?

Your observations

• Were the goals of the lesson met? How do you know?

• What strategies did the teacher implement to engage student learning?

• What other strategies could have been used?

Teacher’s Next Steps

Lunch and “Board Stations”

• By 1:00 please have your stations ready.

• Leave your “progress/contact cards” available for pick up by others.

• 1:00-1:15 Board groups gather to organize• Always have 1 or 2 people from your

group available at the station to answer questions.

• Others “visit” other stations.• Switch so everyone has time to roam.• Leave your “progress/contact cards”

available for pick up by others.

Board visits 1:00 – 2:30

When you have finished visiting…

• Return to your Board table.

• Share what you’ve learned.

• What ideas can you draw upon to improve the experience of the students in your board?

Three Stage Coaching Model

• Co Planning– Lesson plan, developed by teacher with

coach. (An adaptation of textbook lessons to accommodate a grade 7/8 combined grade classroom).

• Co Teaching

• Co Debriefing

Operations with Fractions Gr. 7/8

• Examine TIPS 2.0 Lesson & Posing Powerful Question Template

• Discuss how the lesson supports student understanding:– activities– choice of questions– manipulatives– DI– other

Operations with Fractions Gr. 7/8

• Watch and listen for student - student and student - teacher mathematical interactions.

Operations with Fractions Gr. 7/8

• Analyze the samples of student work.– What do the students know? – With what are students struggling?

• What might the teacher consider while planning for the next day?

Adobe Connect Follow up sessions

Possible topics:– Effective use of IWB– Further investigation into the KPRDSB work

with students in 9 applied– Pairs Coaching in Greater Essex DSB– Professional Learning supported by

researchers in PVNCCDSB– Posing Powerful Questions

Other topics of interest

Adobe Connect Follow up sessions

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Feedback Please

• The most beneficial aspect of today was…

• I plan to use my new learning in the following ways…

• Additional support/learning I need…

• Other comments

Thank you

• Please leave on the table:– Handouts as specified– Feedback form