returning sps: coaching for induction i

SAN JOSE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTINSPIRING AND PREPARING ALL STUDENTS TO SUCCEED IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY

Welcome to

Coaching for InductionReturning Support ProvidersOctober 8 & 9, 2012

Meeting Goals

• Focus on Equity & Culturally Responsive Teaching

• Further build Support Provider mentoring & listening skills

• Consider how to apply mentoring skills to move Participating Teachers from Novice to Expert on the CTP

Constructivist Listening

• Focus on the talker

• Silence is fine

• Respect the dyad

Constructivist Listening

What is one significant event that happened at school to you today?

Learning Partners

Bridge partner should be sitting next to you

All other partners at different tables

Pygmalion in the classroom

Pygmalion Effect

Say something

• Offer an opinion

• State a new idea

• Note a question

• pp. 1-4

Pygmalion Effect

• What connections have you seen between expectations and student outcomes in your experience?

• How might this be relevant to our work as mentors?

Break

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Calibration

Four Stances of a Learning Focused Conversation

• Read pp. 5-10 on the Four Stances

• Highlight important points

• Share with your Bear Republic partner

• Share by Heading

• New ideas, different ideas

Four Stances for Learning Focused Conversations

• Read scenarios (p. 11)

• Write statement/question for each stance

• Use cues on p. 10 for help

Four Stances for Learning Focused Conversations

Break

Silence

• Pause after asking a question

• Pause before responding

• Pause before asking your next question

Tool Kit

Paraphrasing• P. 13 Summarizing & Organizing

• Shifting Level of Abstraction

• * A new idea

• ! I agree with this

• ? I wonder about this

Tool Kit

Syntactical Substitutions

• The Some

• Could Might

• Is Seems

• Why What

Tool Kit

• Positive presuppositions• What is your instructional objective…?

• Plural forms• What are your instructional

objectives…?

• Exploratory language• What are some of the reasons you

chose that objective…?

Tool Kit

Do you have any hands-on material for this lesson?

Can you think of any reasons for that behavior?

What two things would you change for that assignment?

Tool Kit

Meeting Goals

• Focus on Equity & Culturally Responsive Teaching

• Further build Support Provider mentoring & listening skills

• Consider how to apply mentoring skills to move Participating Teachers from Novice to Expert on the CTP

• Think of two ways you can use the strategies from tonight to empower your Participating Teacher to grow in their craft

Closure

• Evaluations

• Next Steps: Deepening Understanding/Preparation for Inquiry (see calendar)

• Coaching for Induction II: December 11 & 13

Closure