Objectives:

• To evaluate the current status of the PIIC program in our schools
• To share successful literacy strategies for use in coaching
• To revisit and deepen our understanding of core concepts of PIIC Instructional Coaching
• To use the 4 Lenses of Learning in completing and designing professional development opportunities
• To explore the role of the coach as teacher-leader
• To evaluate the Leadership standard for professional learning (Learning Forward)

Agenda:

BEFORE:

DURING:

• BackgroundSchedule for 2013-14
  • What is Instructional Coaching?
  • PIIC 4 Quadrants
  • BDA
• Content-Area Vocabulary
  • Interacting with vocabulary
  • What do you look for in a vocabulary activity?
    • enter your responses here
  • how do we share this with other teachers?
• 4 Lenses of Learning
  • Prezi
  • PLN
  • Text Activity: The Story of an Hour (BDA format)
    • text rendering / transacting with the text
    • How does this activity look through the 4 Lenses?
• Professional Reading: Study Groups
  • Choose a Passage
  • Design a BDA around it
    • Don't teach the text. Use the text to teach the concept behind it
• Learning Forward - Standards for Professional Learning: Leadership
  • What does a teacher's leadership role look like?
  • Article Summary activity

AFTER: