1. Coaching for 21st century teaching and learning
Karen Meyer
Shelee King George
Matt Huston

2. Table Sharing Your name and current role Years as an educator
As a table group, find one thing you all have in common.
Choose a recorder who will introduce your table to the group using this prompt:
uce your table using the following prompt:
Between us, we have ___ years working in education. One thing we all have in common is…
Connecting activity: point out that between us we have a lot of knowledge and experience

3. Between Us Our past Our present Our belief in education
One thing we all have in common is we designed and implemented this peer coaching model.
Our past
Our present
Our belief in education
I am a former special ed teacher and tech integration specialist. Currently, I am the Director of professional learning for Peer-Ed. After sharing with over 49 countries, I have discovered that educators world wide want to make a difference for their students. Peer Coaching is a simple, effective form of professional development that helps teachers share ideas and learn from one another to encourage all students to achieve and be ready for tomorrow’s work force.

4. In This Session Discuss Tomorrow’s Workforce Needs
Learn About The Peer Coaching Program
Practice Communication Skills
Participate in Learning Focused Conversations
Beyond today – Take action on at least two ideas gained in this session
conversations
Our peer coaching program uses a lesson improvement process that focuses on curriculum standards and technology integration and helps prepare our students for tomorrow’s workforce.
Refer to cover of handout. The session description is there.
Today, we will have 5 collaborative conversations, all which play a significant role in the lesson improvement process.

5. Tomorrow’s Workforce Table talk with recorder
What skills do our students need to contribute to tomorrow’s workforce?
What do you think are the desirable characteristics of our students for their world of work in the future?
5 minute table conversations. Recorder generates a list.

6. 21st Century Skills Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
Communication- oral and written
Collaboration and teamwork
Diversity
Leadership
Creativity and innovation
Information Technology Application
Compare your list to Partnership for 21st century skills work. Cross off items you have on your list.
Click to remove picture to reveal the list of skills.
Make sure to note this list created in US many other countries have similar vision about kind of education all students must have. This list comes from the partnership for 21st century skills.
Critical Thinking/Problem Solving -Exercise sound reasoning and analytical thinking;
use knowledge, facts, and data to solve workplace problems; apply math and science concepts
to problem solving. Apply in classwork and in new situations.
Oral and Written Communication to share those findings
Teamwork/Collaboration—Build collaborative relationships with colleagues and customers;
be able to work with diverse teams, negotiate and manage conflicts This includes honoring Diversity—Learn from and work collaboratively with individuals representing diverse cultures, races, ages, gender, religions, lifestyles, and viewpoints. And Leadership—Honor the strengths of others to achieve common goals; use interpersonal skills to coach and develop others
Creativity and innovation: Creating opportunities for students to develop and present their creativity
Information Technology Applications taking advantage of the available and emerging technology to enable all of the above

7. Supporting 21st Century Learning in the Classroom
Consider the skills and knowledge TEACHERS need to offer this type of learning to their students:
Click the tree picture to launch the movie. We are faced with a challenge.

8. Enabling 21st-Century Schools
Policy Leader
School Leaders
Leadership Teaching/ Learning
Teacher Leaders
Teachers
Good spot for Mary to state how this works in Arizona.
Key points: We know it takes strong teaching and learning and supportive leadership to make 21st Century Schools. This chart outlines that support. This image comes from the Partners in Learning group at Microsoft who support programs that develop teacher, school and leadership programs. We personally owe Microsoft a big thank you for licensing the Peer Coaching Curriculum making it free to all. Now shared in over 49 countries, Peer Coaching is impacting classroom practice on multiple levels.
If we want students to use technology to gather information, to analyze and synethsize that information, to draw conclusions and share their findings with others, in other words if we want students to develop the skills they will need to be successful in school and the work place of the 21st Century, it is clear that they need teachers who provide those experiences. But we need to provide support and assistance for their teachers.
If you look at the orange section, it shows those teacher leaders, let’s call them coaches, who can help other teachers to develop the skills and confidence they need to integrate ICT into the teaching and learning of any subject.
The chart also reflects that fact that teachers and their teacher leaders need support from school leaders if we expect them to be successful. Teachers are quite clear when asked, they will tell you that reform efforts are successful only if those efforts are supported by school leaders. School leaders can provide the time and other resources needed to make reforms succeed. (Arizona – that is you Mary Knight.. The support for Flagstaff)
And if we look at the top of this pyramid, its is clear that school leaders need to see that their efforts at change are also supported by regional and national educational leaders as well. (Arizona- ADE)
We believe that Peer Coaching can help develop the capacity of teacher leaders to play and active role in changes aimed at preparing other teachers to help students master the skills they will need in the 21st Century.
Mary can paraphrase this and share how this looks in Arizona.
Students
Available and
emerging technologies
Teaching/ Learning

9. Peer Coaching Program at a Glance
Let’s take a quick look at the program:
Our Peer Coaching program is licensed by Microsoft and hosted on the Partners in Learning Web site. It is free to use.
Click once to see the bullets: The curriculum focuses on 3 key areas:
Click again to see the TLC stones
Coaching skills- we know coaching trains without adequate training to build collaboration and mentorship. So many content specialists are excellent at their content areas, but not necessarily at collaborating.
Tech Integration- To encourage, foster experimentation and the use of tech to ADD Value to the teaching and learning process… not just for technology’s sake.
Lesson Improvement. How do coaching skills and technology integration play a role in the collaborative lesson improvement. How to have these conversations about topics near and dear to teacher’s hearts.

10. The Peer Coaching Journey
Builds teacher leaders who collaborate with peers
8 sessions spread out over a year
TIME for coaches to learn practice, collaborate and reflect
Our journey is a non-evaluative partnership.
8 full day training sessions are spread out over time giving Time to grow as a coach, to practice and to reflect.

11. Practice Communication skills

12. Communication Skills Communication Skills Cue Card Active Listening
Paraphrasing
Clarifying Questions
Probing Questions
No real courageous conversations develop without trust. Communication skills is how we build trust. (overview the listening and paraphrasing. Have them do interactive activity Just listen A/B partners. A is the speaker Talk 1 minute about the use of technology in your schools. Partner paraphrases, speaker gives feedback as to accuracy. Repeat.
Include paraphrasiing intent and also how it leads to questions.
Clarifying for the listener
Probing for the speaker

13. Communication Skills Communication Skills Cue Card
Just Listen Activity
A/B partners
A: Speak one minute
B: Listen fully
B: Paraphrase
A:Paraphrasing Accuracy Feedback
Repeat
Prompt:
Talk about how YOU are addressing 21st century learning in your educational setting.
No real courageous conversations develop without trust. Communication skills is how we build trust. (overview the listening and paraphrasing. Have them do interactive activity Just listen A/B partners. A is the speaker Talk 1 minute about the use of technology in your schools. Partner paraphrases, speaker gives feedback as to accuracy. Repeat.
Include paraphrasiing intent and also how it leads to questions.
Clarifying for the listener
Probing for the speaker

14. A Coaching Conversation
Click on the picture to play audio file. Have participants identify the use of communication skills.

15. Participate in learning focused conversations

16. The Learning Activity Checklist
Overview
Filter through which we can look at lessons
See my notes on the LAC. Used in the program to assess existing lessons looking for evidence of each quadrant and making recommendations for improvement

17. A Learning Focused Conversation
Lesson Background
Review the lesson using the Assess Lesson Design Template
What is good?
What is not so good?
How can we fix it?
Use Industrial Tic Tac Toe to analyze.

18. Next Steps Collaborative lesson improvement
Creates a ripple effect across classroom practice
Dallas Primary School
You can continue the conversations around collaborative lesson improvement and share the Learning Activity Checklist.
We believe this is

19. Get involved Use new ideas Do Collaborative Lesson Improvement
Join the Partners in Learning Network
Get involved with Peer Coaching
Create your own ripple effect
Give handout for how to do facilitator training
Give each a stone to make their own ripple effect.

20. Thank you
All handouts available at