Peer Coaching for Educators

by Gottesman, Barbara L.; Riley, Richard W.

• ISBN13: 9780810837454
• ISBN10: 0810837455
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-26
• Publisher: R&L Education
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Summary

Can teachers, principals, and professors lead their students toward profound learning until they have been there themselves? Peer coaching offers a remarkable vehicle to join with students as learners and together build a community of learners, and this volume presents it all with clarity, economy, honesty, and conviction.

Author Biography

Barbara Gottesman is a principal in the consulting group, Education Connections-Synapse, and an associate professor in educational leadership at San Jose State University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
Roland S. Barth
Experiencing Peer Coaching	1	(12)
Why Peer Coaching?	1	(4)
What Is Peer Coaching?	5	(1)
Why Do It?	6	(2)
Who Does It?	8	(2)
Purposes: Peer Coaching and Peer Review Teams	10	(3)
Evaluation, Staff Development, and Peer Coaching	13	(12)
Evaluation Systems: Instructional Improvement	13	(3)
Staff Development: Instructional Improvement	16	(7)
Peer Coaching: Instructional Improvement	23	(2)
Learning About Peer Coaching	25	(20)
Background	25	(4)
Changing School Culture: The Three Phases of Peer Coaching	29	(4)
What Does It Look Like?	33	(4)
Roles	37	(3)
In the Classroom	40	(1)
At the National Level	41	(4)
The Teacher Requests a Visit for Peer Coaching	45	(10)
Sample Dialogue	52	(3)
The Visit	55	(4)
A Sample Visit: No Dialogue	57	(2)
The Coach Reviews the Notes and Lists Some Possibilities	59	(4)
The Talk After the Visit	63	(12)
True Coaching	69	(3)
A Sample Dialogue for the Talk after the Visit	72	(3)
The Process Review and Reflection on Peer Coaching	75	(4)
A Sample Dialogue for the Process Review	76	(3)
Selling and Buying into Peer Coaching	79	(6)
Selling Peer Coaching to the School Board As an Investment	79	(6)
Putting Peer Coaching in Place in a School	85	(16)
Selling Peer Coaching	85	(2)
Training Session in Five Steps	87	(3)
Practicing Peer Watching	90	(1)
Skills Needed to Peer Coach	91	(5)
Troubleshooting	96	(1)
Peer Coaching---Show Time!	97	(4)
Teaching Portfolds and Peer Coaching	101	(12)
The Relationship between Peer Coaching and Teaching Portfolios	101	(1)
Portfolios from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards	102	(3)
A Teaching Portfolio for Evaluation	105	(7)
Summary	112	(1)
Next Steps: Changing Teacher Preparation and Evaluation Systems	113	(8)
Institutionalization of Peer Coaching	113	(1)
Teacher Education Triads	114	(2)
A Modest Proposal	116	(5)
Appendix 1: Masters for Handouts and Transparencies	121	(31)
Appendix 2: A Training Agenda for Peer Coaching	152	(5)
Bibliography	157	(4)
About the Author	161