SIG 8: Professional Learning for Coaches
Hosted by Justin Fox, Sarika Sharma, and Mona AL-Sukkir
In this Coaching Conversation, our hosts facilitate discussion around the importance of professional learning for coaches. Using the 4 A's Text Protocol, they explore the accompanying resource, Top 10 Supports for Coaches.
Professional Learning and Growth for Coaches |
Read on! The following resources explore this central topic and are sometimes referenced during the conversation.
- Stock, M. J. & Duncan, H. E. (2010). Mentoring as a professional development strategy for instructional coaches: Who mentors the mentors? Planning and Changing, 41(1/ 2), 57-69.
- Gallucci, C., DeVoogt Van Lare, M., Yoon, I. H. & Boatright, B. (2010). Instructional coaching: Building theory about the role and organizational support for professional learning. American Educational Research Journal, 47(4), 919-963.
- Vedder-Weiss, D., Ehrenfeld, N., Ram-Menashe, M., & Pollak, I. (2018). Productive framing of pedagogical failure: How teacher framings can facilitate or impede learning from problems of practice. Thinking Skills and Creativity.
- Gibbons, L. K. & Cobb, P. Focusing on teacher learning opportunities to identify potentially productive coaching activities. (2017). Journal of Teacher Education, 68(4), 411-425.
- Leighton, C. M., et al. (2018). “Let’s FaceTime tonight”: Using digital tools to enhance coaching. The Reading Teacher, 72(1), 39-49.
- Borko, H., Jacobs, J., Eiteljorg, E., & Pittman, M. E. (2008). Video as a tool for fostering productive discussions in mathematics professional development. Teaching and Teacher Education, 24(2), 417–436.
- Seidel, T., et al. (2011). Teacher learning from analysis of videotaped classroom situations: Does it make a difference whether teachers observe their own teaching or that of others? Teaching and Teacher Education, 27, 259-267.