Student-Centered Coaching Symposium

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Student-Centered Coaching

Describe a coaching experience that made a significant impact on you.

My Early Coaching Moves

  • Getting resources for teachers
  • Giving advice
  • Trying to get teachers to teach like I did
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How do you think that went?

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Dear Diane...

What I Learned

  • Coaching is not about 'fixing people'
  • Coaching is a partnership
  • Coaching is about student learning
  • Coaching fits within a robust system of professional learning

Learning Task: Student-Centered, Teacher-Centered, and Relationship-Driven Coaching

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Learning Task: Beliefs that Drive Student-Centered Coaching

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Core Practices for Student-Centered Coaching

Coaching Cycles

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The Flow of a Coaching Cycle

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Components of Coaching Cycles

  • 4-6 weeks in duration
  • Minimum of one co-planning per week
  • 1-3 times per week for coaching in the classroom
  • Can occur with groups, pairs, or individuals
  • Aligned with a unit of instruction
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Setting Goals for Coaching Cycles

Goals are...

  • Standards-based
  • Not too broad or narrow
  • Something the teacher cares about
  • Focused on learning, not just teaching
  • Can be tied to the IEP plan
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What About Classroom Management?

  • Ask yourself: Whose goal is it?
  • If it's the coach's goal, then embed strategies into the coaching cycle.
  • If it's the teacher's goal, then provide a few weeks of intensive support.
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Using Learning Targets

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Learning Targets are used:

  • Throughout the coaching cycle
  • Create a criteria for student performance
  • Student-friendly
  • Can focus on academics, behavior, or engagement

Co-Planning with Student Evidence

Student evidence is:

  • About continuous, formative assessment
  • Anecdotal and descriptive
  • Referred to before making instructional decisions

Types of Student Evidence

  • Anecdotal or conference notes
  • Student writing
  • Exit/entrance tickets
  • Problem solving tasks
  • Readers/writers notebooks

Coaching in the Classroom

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Co-Teaching Moves

  • Noticing and naming
  • Thinking aloud
  • Teaching in tandem
  • You pick four
  • Micro modeling

Measuring the Impact of Coaching on Student and Teacher Learning

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We measure impact by...

  • Using the Result-Based Coaching Tool
  • Coaching logs
  • Continuous formative assessment
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Engaging in Reflective Dialogue

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Learning Task: Crowdsource how the Seven Norms of Collaborative Work influence our coaching conversations.

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Roles for Coaching

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Learning Task: Create a Venn Diagram that defines how principals and coaches work together to make an impact.