Related Professional Development
PLS has a professional development program on coaching and mentoring. This can be used as is, or customized to fulfill your specific needs.
Coaching Skills for Successful Teaching™
Learn how to establish an effective coaching relationship. Bring about positive instructional change by developing rapport with colleagues. Gain essential communication skills that enhance self-confidence.
Find out what coaching is and what it isn't.
- Explore the differences between coaching, mentoring, supervising, and evaluating.
- Learn what makes the coaching role unique.
Become proficient in the 3-step coaching process.
- Learn the three steps of the coaching process: (1) preobservation conference, (2) classroom observation, and (3) postobservation conference.
- Find out the best methods for recording observation information.
- Practice the coaching process through simulations and role plays.
Communicate with ease and clarity.
- Practice the verbal skills essential to coaching.
- Build rapport and understanding with colleagues.
- Improve listening skills.
- Fine-tune nonverbal signals.
- Increase your ability to ask and respond to questions.
Customize the coaching process for your school.
- Adapt a variety of coaching models to fit your needs.
- Create a coaching plan that works for you.
- Carry the skills of good coaching into your professional and personal relationships.
Steve Barkley's new book!
Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching
Steve Barkley wrote this book with the hope that it would both inspire you to continue or initiate a coaching program, and serve as a resource as you implement and build your own coaching program.
It is filled with concrete examples, opportunities to practice specific skills, a clearly defined coaching process, and real-life anecdotes and quotes to pepper it up in the process. This book promises to provide a framework to incorporate a culture of coaching into your own educational environment.
Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching
Freshmen Teachers Battle Drop Outs
DeKalb County Georgia schools have recognized the importance of coaching - especially for freshmen students.
At a at Kennesaw State University, Steve Barkley asked, "Why should a freshman teacher start over when there's a group of middle school teachers who have known a kid?"
Communication about students between 8th grade and 9th grade teachers is vital in keeping those at risk students in school. When the 8th grade teachers were asked to name those they thought would have dropped out in the following year, they correctly named 95% of the students.
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Mentoring to the Rescue
"I only survived my first year of teaching first grade because I was teamed with an experienced teacher who mentored and coached me through the process. Without this, I would have been in trouble.
"Over the years, I have learned that a mentoring program creates three benefits or rewards for beginning teachers who enter it: the opportunity to celebrate, the opportunity to add options to your repertoire, and the opportunity for conscious practice."
Read what Steve Barkley, expert coach and trainer, has to say about the importance of mentoring.
Mentoring to the Rescue!
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Related Online PD
Coaching for Educators
This 4-hour professional development consists of two online modules:
- The Value of Peer Coaching (2 hrs)
Explore the meaning of peer coaching, its benefits, and the ways coaching empowers teachers at all levels of experience and ability. - The Process of Peer Coaching (2 hrs)
Learn the three-part process of peer coaching.