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Welcome > Eight Principles of RFA > Level II: Coaching For Transfer From Staff Room to Classroom:
Coaching For Transfer
So, You Wannabe a Staff Developer: Level II Training
Robin Fogarty & Associates, Ltd. Professional Development
* Requirements Below
Mentor, master teacher, expert coach or peer coach, it does not matter. What matters is that there is an academic coach.
The coach is the missing link between learning in a staff room setting to applying that learning in a classroom setting. With the coaching in place, active transfer from the staff room to the classroom increases from 5% to 95% (Joyce and Showers, 2004). Academic coaching is the key to this astonishing shift from inert knowledge to deep understanding.
Armed with a repertoire of instructional strategies and coaching techniques that span the spectrum from observation and modeling to video-analysis and journaling; from managing data and identifying needs to reflective dialogues and relevant transfer; from pre and post conferencing to self awareness and self appraisal, the coach is the force that moves the adult learner along the path to reflective practice and significant change. In no uncertain terms, the academic coach makes the difference in the learning journey of the teacher and of the students in that classroom.
"Come to the edge," he said.
They said, "We are afraid."
"Come to the edge," he said.
They came.
He pushed them ...and they flew.
-Appollinaire
Agenda
Day 1: Defining the Coaching Roles
Revisit Adult Learner
Change Theory: The Tipping Point
Formal Mentor-Theoretical Sage
Master Teacher-Master Practitioner
Collegial Coach-Peer Coach
Coaching Conference
Six Levels of Transfer
Tiny Transfer Book
Educating Esme
The Bungee Jump – Video Clip
Day 2: Developing a Repertoire of Coaching Strategies
Observing in the Classroom / Modeling a Strategy
Dialoging and Reflecting
Identifying Needs / Analyzing a Video-taped Lesson
Examining Student Work
Managing Data, Dialogue and Decisions / Learning with a Book Study
Journaling for Reflective Practices
Step Book / Pocket Book
Remember the Titans – Video Clip
Day 3: Understanding Transfer
Transfer Theory / Bo Peep, Black Sheep, Good Shepherd
Simple and Complex Transfer
Some Things, Some How, Somewhere
Utilizing Research-based Transfer Strategies
Seven Steps to Transfer / Hugging and Bridging Strategies
Coaching the Six Levels of Transfer
Awareness and Self-Appraisal / Dialogue Questions
Magic Book
Motivation Man – Video Clip
Resources:
Relevant Articles
Books:
From Staff Room to Classroom: Planning and Coaching Professional Learning
- Robin J. Fogarty and Brian M. Pete (NSDC Members Club Book for Fall 2006)
A Look at Transfer: Seven Strategies that Work
- Robin J. Fogarty and Brian M. Pete
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