Peer Coaching for Differentiation

Liz Fogarty, PhD fogartye@ecu.edu

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Put Me In Coach

Peer Coaching Strand - Day 1

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3INTRODUCTIONS

Your Name

Your Job (position/grade)

Where you are from

Number times at Confratute

What do you hope to get out of this class?

Our Sessions

40 minutes40 minutes

40 minutes

Agenda for this Week

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Tuesday: Put Me In Coach - Establishing trust for working relationships

Wednesday: Would I Want to Be Coached By Me?

Thursday: Courageous Conversations

Friday: Lighting the Torches of Others

Being Coached Well

Think of a time when you were being coached well and you achieved success.

When was it? What were you doing? What was the person coaching or teaching you doing? Describe his/her actions as specifically as possible.

Describe the relationship between you and the coach.

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Good PD is:

Intentional

(Guskey, 2000, Corwin Press)9

Ongoing

Systemic

Professional Development Is Not:

Random Haphazard Fragmented Piecemeal Passing fancies This years new thing Unclear about the organizational support

involved 10(Guskey, 2000, Corwin Press)

Reasons Why Professional Development Doesnt Take Effect

I cannot make a difference

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Other people will ne

ver change

(Olsen & Sommers, 2006)

Circumstances are too powerful

There is too much to

do

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