What Are The Benefits Of Technology Integration Coaching?

Research findings indicate that school-based, peer coaching plays a role in improving student achievement. This research wouldn’t surprise many teachers. They often look first to colleagues when they need assistance to integrate technology into their classroom. T2 Coaching enhances each school’s capacity to offer sustained, high quality assistance to its teachers. T2 provides coaches with the knowledge, tools, and support needed to enhance student learning. By providing job-embedded, on-going professional support, coaches can help build new strategies and skills by:

 

·      Encouraging reflection and analysis of teaching practice.

·      Fostering collaboration among teachers throughout the school building.

·      Utilizing the school’s teacher leaders.

·      Providing on-going, cost-effective staff development.

·      Providing opportunities for professional growth for their colleagues whatever their experience with integrating technology.

 

 
Resources on Coaching and Mentoring

 

Education Week, Hot Topics, Professional Development

http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/issuespage.cfm?id=16

By providing on-going professional development that is connected to student achievement, schools are finding new ways to provide teachers with needed skills and instructional strategies. This article gives an overview of the principles of effective professional development with links to related articles

 

Mentoring In the New Millennium by Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan
http://www.oct.ca/english/ps/december_1999/mentoring.htm

Explores mentoring programs developed in the past decade and describes how such programs can promote collegial professionalism.

 

Teachers Take Charge of Their Learning,

Transforming Professional Development for Student Success

http://www.nfie.org/publications/takecharge_exec.htm

To improve student achievement, public schools must weave continuous learning for teachers into the fabric of the teaching profession. This article tells how schools can build effective staff development programs.

 

 

 

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