AHDS Conference November 2014 - workshop; PRD, Coaching and Mentoring

Transforming lives through learning

A ‘coaching approach’ to professional review and

development. Thursday 6 November 2014

Jayne Horsburgh

Development Officer

Teacher Education

Education Scotland

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Transforming lives through learning

Using the GTC Scotland Standards

Professional Knowledge and Understanding

Professional Skills and Abilities / Professional Actions

Professional Values and Personal Commitment

•The Standards for Registration (mandatory, comprising the SPR and the SFR)

• The Standard for Career-long Professional Learning

• The Standards for Leadership and Management (for middle leaders and Head Teachers)

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Teachers are the major players in the education process

A student in a high impact teacher’s class room has almost a years advantage over his or her peers in a lower – effect teachers classroom

(Slater, Davies & Burgess 2009 in Hattie, J. (2012) Visible learning for teachers page 23 Routledge pub)

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6 Key features effective PRD..

1...is an entitlement and the responsibility of all teachers (7)

2...has a positive impact on planning professional learning (9)

3...an ongoing process within a collegiate culture (10)

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6 Key features effective PRD… 4...is founded on robust

self-evaluation (13)

5...involves focussed professional dialogue (15)

6. ..requires teachers to maintain a record supported by evidence of impact (17)

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National PRD guidelines Education Scotland 2013

Key Feature 4

PRD is founded on robust, evidence-based self-evaluation.

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Effective approaches to Self Evaluation

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Reflective questions

Activity 1

How do my perceptions of PRD affect my ability to ensure that it is effective for my colleagues /for my self ?

PRD& ME

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National PRD guidelines Education Scotland 2013

Key Feature 5

PRD involves focused

professional dialogue.

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Activity 2

1. Identify the key issues for the professional development of the case study.

2. Use the ‘starter questions’ to help you create some coaching questions in relation to the key issues identified.

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Activity 3

Coach

Observer

Coachee

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‘leadership is an interactive art in which the leader is dancing with

the context, the problem,

the factions and the objective’

(The Powers to Lead : J.S.Nye, 2008, pg86 )

Jayne.Horsburgh@educationscotland.gov.uk