A Professional Learning Model ~ Coaching ~

1. A Professional Learning Model~ Coaching ~ • Few educational innovations achieve their full impact without a coaching component.Joyce and Showers (1988) found that only when the component of coaching was added was the innovation internalized, valued and transferred to the classroom. • Deprivatization enhances the intellectual capacities of teachers, which, in turn, produces greater intellectual achievements in students.

2. Coaching • Teacher coaching is a highly sophisticated form of school based professional reflective practice. It is a series of conversations designed to assist teachers to extend their personal and professional learning to improve student achievement.(Julie Boyd, 2000)

4. Coaching • Ongoing • Internal • Relevant to practice • Focussed on student outcomes • Collaborative • Evidence based and data driven • Based on best available research on effective teaching & learning • Pedagogical/Discipline/Pedagogical Practice

5. Impact of professional development & training on job performance Reference: Training components, their combinations and impact on job performance (based on Joyce and Sowers, 1988 adapted by Wallace, M.in Claxton, g. et al (1996). Liberating the learner, London: Routledge, p.24.

6. Tuning Protocol – 11mins • Introduction 1min • Presentation 2min • Clarifying Questions 1min • Write Feedback & Reflective Questions 1min • Feedback on Strengths 2min • Reflective Questions 2min (Presenter takes notes and DOES NOT respond yet) • Presenter Responds & Open Conversation 1min • Feedback on the Process 1min

7. Links How have the ideas of these educational thinkers; Showers, Lieberman and Miller influenced education in Victoria? • Effective Schools Model • The Seven Principals of Highly Effective Professional Development Document • State Coaching Program • Richard Elmore’s Second Law • Professional Dialogue; PALTS, Learning Walks, Lesson Study, Lab Site, Walk Throughs, Professional Reading, Protocols, etc….

8. EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS

9. ELMORE Elmore’s second law of professional development K E = 2 d “The effect of professional development on practice and performance is inverse to the square of its distance from the classroom.” ‘School Reform from the Inside Out; Policy, Practice and Performance’ by Richard F. Elmore

10. Effective Professional Learning

11. Professional Dialogue Mentor Protocols Peer Observation PALTS Walk Through Pre-brief CALTS Learning Walks Professional Reading Data Critical Friend Observation Lab Sites Planned Learning De-Brief Coaching Cycle Lesson Study School Visits Study Groups On-line Learning