Www.theCenter4Learning.com The Administrative Webinar Series 2010-2011 Discover How Administrators can Support & Coach Classroom Teachers

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The Administrative Webinar Series 2010-

2011Discover How Administrators can Support &

Coach Classroom Teachers


Goal Sessions:

• Identify usable strategies for strengthening HET leadership in your school.

• Reflect on your own experience and how to use that experience to develop a plan for supporting your teachers.


“It is easy enough to vocalize for change, but one must have something to change to that is

reasonably well understood and ready and waiting for use”

(Hart, 2002, p. 8).

Leslie Hart


Guiding Principles1.Teachers cannot change a behavior or practice

until they SEE what the new behavior or practice LOOKS like in a real world setting multiple times.

2.For professional development to truly be effective and sustained, it must be accompanied with on-going COACHING in a non-threatening environment


Strategy #1:

• Model a brain-compatible classroom in your own staff meetings.


• Use of agendas

• Build a collaboration strategy in each session– Mill to Music– Clock Partners

• Provide collaboration/talking time

• Avoid listing updates—use email

• Model what you expect to have happen in your classrooms



Strategy #2:

• De-clutter your own work space.



Strategy #3: • Create a school-wide behavior plan that

focuses on LIFESKILLS and Lifelong Guidelines.





Strategy #4: • With your school leadership team, define

at least three goals for the school year in implementing concepts from the Highly Effective Teaching Model.

• Model and reflect

• Measure and respond

• Monitor and report




Strategy #5: • Use Target Talk, LIFESKILLS, Lifelong

Guidelines in your daily correspondence with teachers, students, and families.


Strategy #6: • Be visible in the classrooms on a regular

basis.

• Develop ‘Wish Upon a Star cards’

• Provide feedback on the positive.



Strategy #7: • Honor where staff members are…but don’t

lower expectations. As long as staff members are moving along the continuum, give them credit.

• Utilize a rubric—give them a picture




Strategy #8: • Do some leg work.

• Create LIFESKILLS

• Write a key point

• Teach an inquiry




Cause is an initial action that brings about an effect. Effect is the result of an action, which could be a single consequence or a chain of events. Every cause has an effect; every effect becomes a new cause within the systems of our world. We learn to positively affect the world by understanding the relationship between cause and effect and becoming more aware of why events happen.


A shape is an element of art that is an enclosed space that is defined by lines, colors, or textures. There are two types of shapes—geometric and organic. Examples of geometric shapes are triangles, rectangles, or circles. Organic shapes are less-defined like clouds. Artists use shapes to create works of art.


Inquiries: 1.Make a list of the activities you did yesterday. Choose one activity and explain how it affected the rest of your day. In your explanation, include how your day would have been different had this activity not occurred. Share with your Learning Club. (L) |

2.Listen to the provided music. In your journal, reflect on how your mood is affected by listening to the song. (L, M) 3.Choose a story to read with a partner. After reading, identify at least two cause-and-effect relationships within the story. Make an illustration of your findings. Post your illustration near the reading area. (L, S) (ILA 4.2.6)


Inquiries: 4. Create a five-minute workout plan. Ask another student to perform the exercises you created. While the student performs, record in your journal the noticeable effects of your exercise plan. Reflect in your journal how continuous exercise can be beneficial to your body. (BK, L)

5. Choose a LIFESKILL that you can implement that will affect the life of another person. Make a plan of how you will use that LIFESKILL. Execute your plan. Interview the person about how your use of the LIFESKILL improved his/her quality of life. Introduce your person to the rest of your Learning Club. (L, LM) (ILA 5.4.5)


Strategy #9: • Create opportunities for staff to collaborate

and grow.

• Creative team planning time

• Quarterly observations



Strategy #10: • Create In-School Coaching Structures Shadow Opportunities

1. Peer Coaching -Specific Objectives (monthly)-Guest Teacher opportunities-Build into PL 221 plans

2. Paid Coaching-HET Associates-In-House support


• Model Teaching Week– Intern– TS– TT

• Cohort Support System

• Yearlong Professional Development Program


Cohort Support System1. Divide schools into teams

2. Utilize teacher leaders at each building to foster professional development/growth

3. Create opportunities for self-assessment, reflection, walk through

4. Set goals for teams to accomplish

5. Monitor goals

6. Reflect


Skills Incentives Resources AssessmentAction Plan Confusion

Vision Skills Incentives Resources Action PlanUnknownResults

Vision Skills Incentives Resources AssessmentFalseStarts

Vision Skills Incentives AssessmentAction Plan Frustration

Vision Skills Resources AssessmentAction PlanGradualChange

Vision Incentives Resources AssessmentAction Plan Anxiety

Vision Skills Incentives Resources AssessmentAction PlanMeaningful

Change

Managing Complex Change; Adapted from Delores Ambrose, 1987


Take it Back!• Reflect on information from the

presentation.– 3 questions you have– 2 action steps to begin sustainability– 1 resource you need

• Share your ideas with your Learning Club.


“Never before has the pressure been so high to find ways to support

successful teaching and learning through effective professional

development…the National Staff Development Council has proposed an additional goal: That all teachers in all schools should experience high-quality

professional learning by 2007.”

Judy Salpeter

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