DVD for Every Teacher: Coaching and Mentoring - learningemall.com
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For beginning teachers, the benefits of skillful mentoring include increased confidence as instructional problem solvers and decision makers. For experienced teachers, mentoring a colleague increases understanding and rekindles a love for learning. We don't learn to teach, we learn from our teaching. - Laura Lipton & Bruce Wellman
Teacher mentors will gain confidence and expertise as they come to
Understand the roles, responsibilities, and intentions of the mentor/growth agent.
Identify the functions of a learning-focused relationship offering support, creating challenge, and facilitating a professional vision.
Explore the stances for navigating across a continuum of interaction, including coaching, consulting, and collaborating.
Apply verbal and non-verbal tools for establishing and sustaining learning-focused relationships.
Investigate templates for producing effective planning, reflecting, and problem-solving.
Connect the needs of beginning teachers with the hallmarks of teaching expertise.
Observe methods for moving novices toward increased capacity and long-time commitment to the profession.
The greatest resource for improving educators can be found within themselves as they come to understand their beliefs and perceptions and ablility to solve their own problems. Cognitive Coaching is the catalyst to lift educators up to this level.
Your staff will
Learn that Cognitive Coachingsm can be used in any situation requiring effective communication.
See how a coach is a mediator of thinking, with intentionality.
Learn the tools of Cognitive Coachingsm: trust, rapport,mediative questions, and non-judgmental response behaviors.
Explore why teachers who are more reflective have students who learn more.
Examine the Coaching Cycle: the planning, the event,and the reflecting.
See how the maps of conversation guide the Cognitive Coachingsm conversations.
Learn how to apply Cognitive Coachingsm in a variety of professional and personal situations.
Featuring Joellen Killion, Jim Knight and Stephen Barkley
Instructional Coaching is the most powerful method for implementing professional learning and change in the classroom! Coaching brings dramatic improvement in teaching practices and student achievement for minimal cost. This in-depth training solution to help you create and establish a coaching program and maximize the effectiveness of coaches. Real coaches-in-action are included with examples from rural, suburban, urban, elementary, and secondary schools. A staff developer in Minnesota recently purchased the series, watched it, and liked it so much she ordered the entire program for each of the 25 coaches in her district! Whether you have, or need reading coaches, math coaches, instructional coaches, school-based staff developers, mentors, differentiation coaches, data coaches, or school achievement coaches, all will greatly benefit from the wealth of information contained in these research-based programs. Likewise, principals and other administrators can benefit from this informative training as they will learn how to help and guide the teachers that they work with. Featuring Joellen Killion, Jim Knight, Stephen Barkley, and many successful coaches, the series contains:
Program 1: Creating an Instructional Coaching Program: A District Responsibility
Learn the what and why of coaching.
Understand the Coaching Framework.
Program 2: Developing and Training Coaches Understand the key skills necessary for a successful coach. Expand those skills so the coach can be successful.
Program 3: The Coach in the School Setting
Learn how to support, monitor and evaluate coaches.
Program 4: Coaches in Action
Observe well-trained coaches through the myriad of daily activities coaches engage in.
The critical need in today's schools is to transform them from organizations that produce compliance and attendance to those that nurture attention and commitment The result is highly engaged classrooms that facilitate greater student achievement. - Philip C. Schlechty
This program will show you how to achieve the goals you have set by
Recognizing the core of business of the school which is to design engaging academic work for students.
Distinguishing the levels of student engagement: Engagement, Strategic Compliance Retreatism, and Rebellion.
Learning about the 'Working on the Work' school where teachers work together to create meaningful and engaging learning activities.
Ovserving the difference between te Highly Engaged, the Well Managed, and the Pathological classrooms.
Creating capacity and examining beliefs about student learning and teachingto shape the vision and drive the mission.
Observing how to design word for student engagement integrating the Design Qualities: Content and Substance; Affirmation of Performance; Organization of Knowledge; Affiliation; Product Focus; Novelty and Variety; Clear and Compelling Product Standards; Choice; Protection from Adverse Consequences; Authenticity; Consequences to Intitial Failures.