At the recent ResearchEd 18 event in London, we learned all about instructional coaching, which is, according to researcher Sam Sims, “probably the best-evidenced form of PD currently known to mankind”.
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At the recent ResearchEd 18 event in London, we learned all about instructional coaching, which is, according to researcher Sam Sims, “probably the best-evidenced form of PD currently known to mankind”.
As coaching trainer Peter DeWitt said in his blog 3 Reasons Instructional Coaching May Not Be Working, and as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching Project showed, badly done coaching can actually harm teachers’ performance.
So you’re making the transition into a leadership role? Or perhaps you’re already a leader and want to improve your skills? Either way, good for you!
Making the move from follower to being the one who guides, motivates, inspires and manages, can be a challenge. The transition takes time, experience, skills and commitment.
But fear not! We’ve got 5 resources to help you become a great leader.
As a teacher, you’ll often find yourself in situations outside of your comfort zone. In fact, it pretty much happens from day one of your career when you find yourself standing in front of thirty students quaking in your boots as they look expectantly at you.
Whether you feel anxious because you’re new to teaching, are facing the challenge of teaching a new topic, or find you need to make changes to your practice, there are tried and tested ways of appearing confident. Here are 5 confidence boosting tips.
Tutors at VIA Health in Denmark, started using video for professional development (PD) because they lacked a concrete tool for developing and qualifying their own teaching, and the time to watch each other lecture.
But with the help of video PD, they have been able to see their own teaching from multiple angles and share specific situations, allowing them to step back and reflect on their own teaching in new ways
Professor of Professional Didactics Birgitte Lund Nielsen is one of two facilitators who set the course in motion. She shares her tips on how to use video PD in higher education:
As you're probably aware, one of the biggest challenges for any network of educators, whether it's within an individual school or across a school district, is transferring existing knowledge and new practices, not just from teacher to teacher, but from school to school.
Until now ‘sharing good practice’ via verbal and written presentations has been the traditional approach for knowledge transfer, but despite its popularity, the success rates are low. In fact, coaching and mentoring have a far better success rate than simply listening to other teachers or reading reports. But why?
Joint Practice Development (JPD) has a lot to offer schools and school districts. With the right culture, commitment and challenge in place, it has the power to take professional development and wider school improvement to a whole new level.
Here are 5 steps to help you embed JPD in your school or district...
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