Training+10-13-09

=Peer Coach Training = =Tuesday - October 13, 2009 = =AV/PD room 124 = =8:30 AM - 3:30 PM = =Julie Gajewski - Peer Coach Coordinator =

=Agenda: =

=Please feel free to take breaks as needed throughout the workshop. We will decide when to break for lunch as a group.=


 * Common Ground Activity
 * Group Norms
 * Frame of Reference
 * Peer Coach Program/Mentoring
 * Self-Assessment of Mentoring Knowledge and Skills and In Your Mind's Eye Activity
 * Which topics should we address?
 * What do you want to know?


 * Overview of Program (Three-Column Chart)
 * Purpose
 * Requirements
 * Roles and Responsibilities (__The 21st Century Mentor's Handbook__ p.9)
 * Needs of new teachers/phases of first-year teaching (reciprocal teaching strategy, __Classroom Instruction that Works__ pgs. 42-43)
 * Summary
 * Questions
 * Clarify
 * Predictions
 * Adult Learning Theory (jigsaw/gallery walk, __The 21st Century Mentor's Handbook__ pgs. 26-28) Chart Paper
 * Main points
 * Nonlinguistic Representation
 * 2 - 3 suggestions to meet the needs of adult learners
 * Generational Differences (think-pair-share, __The 21st Century Mentor's Handbook__ pgs.31-35)
 * Communication Skills Review (__The 21st Century Mentor's Handbook__ pgs.36-37)
 * Peer Coaching Activities
 * Classroom procedures vs. classroom management
 * Locating and utilizing resources
 * Technology
 * Peer Observations
 * Co-planning units and lesson plans
 * Examining student work
 * Organizational Systems
 * Grading and assessment
 * Parent/Teacher Conferences and parent communication
 * Peer Coach Forms
 * Mentoring a new teacher
 * Mentoring Professional Growth Plan
 * My mentoring "TO DO" List
 * Peer Observations (__The 21st Century Mentor's Handbook__ pgs. 198-219)0
 * The Observation Process
 * Brainstorm possible challenges or obstacles
 * District Peer Coach Goals
 * We will help to provide positive 1st year experience in the GICSD.
 * We will work towards becoming a professional learning community through continuous collaboration.
 * Questions, Comments, Concerns
 * Online Evaluation