Session+4

=SESSION 4 - Honing Skills = Monday 20th October - 2pm to 4pm Refreshments served at 1:30pm.

Review Sessions 1 - 3
School and Teacher readiness

Peer Coaching - Sharing the idea with your staff
In session 2 we began the process of creating an information product to help introduce the Peer Coaching Program to the school.
 * ACTIVITY 1**
 * Sharing your coaching plan**
 * Did you feel that presenting your coaching plan was valuable? Why or why not?
 * Do you have advice for other coaches who are yet to present their plans to staff?


 * Recruiting collaborating teachers**
 * Were you efforts to recruit teachers to collaborate as successful as you hoped? Why or why not?
 * What would you do differently?


 * Add products here to share with others**

Lesson design
How does the lesson reflect the E5 instructional model?
 * ACTIVITY 2**

What are the strengths of the lesson? Which areas need to be enhanced?

__Other Helpful Criteria__ Learning Activity checklist Scavenger Hunt criteria

Coaching for Classroom Instruction

 * **Engage** || How can we help teachers determine readiness for learning? ||
 * **Explore** || How can we support teachers with creating opportunities to explore and inquire? ||
 * **Explain** || How can we help teachers be explicit in their teaching? ||
 * **Elaborate** || How can we support teachers in providing students time for dialogue about what they are learning? ||
 * **Evaluate** || How can we strengthen assessment practice to improve learning? ||

Groups of 6**
 * ACTIVITY 3
 * 1) Each participant shares the lesson that is created
 * 2) Lesson is described in **two minutes** or less (only presenter is speaking at this stage)
 * 3) Each lesson description should include **content area, grade level, overview of the lesson, why it can be improved**.
 * 4) After each lesson is described, other group members may ask **clarifying and/or probing questions** about the lesson
 * 5) Whoever is sharing the lesson may answer the questions that are raised.

ICT for Learning and Teaching
In table groups brainstorm ICT tools and applications that could be used at the various stages of instruction. We can add to table as a group summary.
 * ACTIVITY 4**
 * == == || ==ICT == || ==Context ==


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 * ==ENGAGE == || blogs || students were very interested when they looked at examples of other's blogs ||
 * ==EXPLORE == || blogs || get children to explore other's blogs and compare using a Venn diagram ||
 * ==EXPLAIN == ||  ||   ||
 * ==ELABORATE == ||  ||   ||
 * ==EVALUATE == ||  ||   ||