Peer Coaching To Enrich Professional Practice, School Culture, And Student Learning, May/2015
| Author(s) | Pam Robbins |
| ISBN10 | 1416620249 |
| ISBN13 | 9781416620242 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 180 |
| Year Publish | 2015 May |
Synopsis
It's true that in schools where teachers collaborate, academic achievement is more likely to improve than in schools where they don't. How can you and your colleagues work together more effectively to improve professional practice in a way that enhances staff and student learning? Here's a book that answers this question and maps out a strategic approach for how to create an effective peer coaching program, or refine and strengthen the one you have. Best-selling ASCD author Pam Robbins draws on her many years of experience in a wide variety of schools to explain surefire ways to
- Develop a collaborative, learning-focused culture that builds trust among colleagues.
- Enrich professional learning experiences and enhance the growth of every teacher.
- Navigate your way through difficult conversations to ensure powerful and useful feedback that yields desired results.
- Support school or district priorities to use data, improve instruction, integrate technology, and implement standards.
Included with the tried-and-true advice are coaching tools, scenarios, process guidelines, and reflection questions that make it easier to transfer these ideas into any school setting.
About The Author:
Pam Robbins is an independent educational consultant who works with public and private schools, school districts, educational service centers, state departments of education, leadership academies, principal centers, professional organizations and associations, universities, and corporations throughout the United States and the world. Pam's professional interests include peer coaching, mentoring, brain research and effective teaching, instructional strategies for the block schedule, learning communities, leadership, supervision, the leadership practices of Abraham Lincoln, and presentation skills.
As an educator, Pam's experience includes serving as a special education teacher, intermediate-grades classroom teacher, high school basketball coach, and school leader. As an administrator, she served as Director of Special Projects and Research for the Napa (CA) County Office of Education and Director of Training for the North Bay California School Leadership Academy.
Pam earned her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral studies focused on teacher leadership and the development of learning communities. She was awarded the Best Dissertation Award by the National Staff Development Council.
Pam has authored or coauthored several articles, book chapters, and books. Publications include How to Plan and Implement a Peer Coaching Program (ASCD); Thinking Inside the Block Schedule: Strategies for Teaching in Extended Periods of Time (with Gayle Gregory and Lynne Herndon, Corwin); If I Only Knew(with Harvey Alvy, Corwin); The New Principal's Fieldbook (with Harvey Alvy, ASCD); The Data Toolkit: Ten Tools for Supporting School Improvement (with Robert Hess, Corwin); A Professional Inquiry Kit on Emotional Intelligence (with Jane Scott, ASCD); The Principal's Companion (with Harvey Alvy, Corwin); and Learning From Lincoln: Leadership Practices for School Success (with Harvey Alvy, ASCD). Pam may be reached at probbins@shentel.net.
