key research
Effective staff development must be “ongoing, deeply embedded in teachers’ classroom work with children, specific to grade levels or academic content, and focused on research-based approaches. It also must help to open classroom doors and create more collaboration and sense of community among teachers in a school” -Russo 2004
Benefits of Peer Coaching:
Peer Coaching: Changing Classroom Practice and Enhancing Student Achievement
Les Foltos, Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
Why Peer Coaching?
McKenzie, J. (1999). Coaching for change. How Teachers Learn Technology Best.
Enhancing Teacher Quality: Peer Coaching as a Professional Development Strategy A Preliminary Synthesis of the Literature
by Kenneth Wong and Anna Nicotera, Vanderbilt University 2003
learning activity checklist
Benefits of Peer Coaching:
- academic achievement
- change in teaching practice
- technology integration
Peer Coaching: Changing Classroom Practice and Enhancing Student Achievement
Les Foltos, Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
Why Peer Coaching?
McKenzie, J. (1999). Coaching for change. How Teachers Learn Technology Best.
Enhancing Teacher Quality: Peer Coaching as a Professional Development Strategy A Preliminary Synthesis of the Literature
by Kenneth Wong and Anna Nicotera, Vanderbilt University 2003
learning activity checklist