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**Getting to know others **
Let's Meet and Greet several of your peers face to face and online. **
 * Who is in this Peer Coaching Program?
 * 1) Find someone in the room whom you do not know. Spend a little time telling about each other, name, school, role, purpose for attending, interests.
 * 2) In the discussion tab introduce the person you have been speaking with. You can introduce this person by first name, role in school, and one or two interests.

A Discussion Board is one or more Forums A Forum is one or more Threads A Thread is one or more Posts A Post is a message: One or more words in a text box
 * Parts of a discussion board**


 * There are seven things to consider when posting on an online discussion board.**

Changing nature of ICT in schools
MCEETYA is the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs in Australia. Read through some of the ideas presented in the publications.





Watch this video at the link below to see how one college has moved into the use of hand held technology. http://www.acu.edu/technology/mobilelearning/researchers/video/connected.html

More research

Professional Learning that has made a difference to your teaching.
Think of 3 Professional Learning sessions/ workshops/ etc.. that have made a difference to your teaching. Think of what made the session worthwhile and the impact that it made on your classroom practice or student outcomes. Download the template in the link below and fill in on your desktop.




 * Professional readings**


 * ======**TYPE OF**======

**TRAINING**
|| ======**KNOWLEDGE**======

**MASTERY**
|| ======**SKILL**======

**ACQUISITION**
|| ======**CLASSROOM**======

**APPLICATION**
|| Teams,Peer Visits** || 90% || 90% || 80 - 90% || Adapted from **Showers and Joyce’s** research on the impact of professional development
 * **Theory** || 85% || 15% || 5 - 10% ||
 * **Practice** || 85% || 80% || 10 - 15% ||
 * **Coaching, Study

What is Peer Coaching?
media type="file" key="Peer Caoching at Lynbrook-desktop.m4v" Activity - Think of 5 things that Peer Coaching is and 5 things that Peer Coaching isn't. Use http://www.text2mindmap.com/ to create a concept map of your 5 ideas. Save as jpg and upload to wiki.

How are Peer Coaches Chosen?
Peer Coaches are chosen for various reasons and qualities. Order the list of qualities in the snap bags with your team. We will publish our top 5 here.

1. Provides a safe risk-taking environment, is non-threatening, non judgmental and accepting 2. Has enough depth and breadth of knowledge to help teachers who are at various stages of technology integration, including knowledge of appropriate instructional strategies 3. Builds on what a teacher needs 4. Ability to build trust with peers 5.Communicates well and listens to the teacher 6. Recognised by staff as a strong, outstanding teacher 7. Flexible

Roles and Responsibilities of a Peer Coach
Identify the roles and responsibilities that you may undertake as a Peer Coach.

The Coaching Cycle
**Assess -** The first stage in assisting a teacher develop and implement a project is to determine what their technology skills are, and what kinds of instructional strategies are they currently using. This information helps the coach and teacher to define a lesson or project the teacher can successfully implement, or to identify the kind of coaching, resources or skills the teacher might need to carry out the project.


 * Goals -** Setting reasonable and realistic goals that are linked to the school’s educational goals and curricular standards is a critical first step toward establishing a solid coaching relationship and helping teachers integrate information and communication technology into their classroom activities.


 * Prepare**


 * Implement Activities -** Coaches often find that the teachers they work with benefit from seeing their coach model a technology rich lesson, or from team teaching a lesson or project with their coach. Coaches report that the coaching and collaboration skills they have developed in the Peer Coaching Program are essential to successful coaching.

One of the strengths of peer coaching is that it provides for structured opportunities for reflection that help teachers improve their instruction. The Peer Coaching Program uses a variety of tools coaches can use in this process
 * Reflect, debrief**

Teacher and School Readiness
One of the questions about Peer Coaching is about knowing if your school or teacher are ready. How can the ePotential data and eLearning matrix guide you in this way?

The Puget Sound Centre came up with these findings.

//Digital Education - Making Change Happen// provides a self assessment and planning tool for integrating ICT into the delivery of teaching and learning.

School Agreement Plan
To assist you in preparing a proposal for your principal or leadership team you may like to look at the School Support Agreement and Peer Coaching Plan handouts.