Peer Coaching for Educators

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.

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

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

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