1. Building Partnerships at Your School Coaching Teachers to Improve Instruction Lisa King

2. Session Objectives • Understand how adults learn • Reflect on the nature of change • Define the Partnership Principles • Explore ideas for getting teachers on board

3. Discuss your challenges.

4. Six Stages of Change • Pre-contemplation • Contemplation • Preparation • Activation • Maintenance • Termination

5. Pre-contemplation“What? I don’t see a problem” • Ignores or is not aware there is a need to change • Blames others

6. Contemplation“ I should do something about this” • Begin to consider why they might need to change • Weigh losses and gains • May decide they must change • We often get stuck here!

7. Preparation“In order to change I need too…” • Make the plans for change • Planning to take action • Go to a workshop, bought a book

8. Action“Just do It” • Initiate the change in behavior for which they have been preparing • Need a system of accountability • Remove every barrier that the teacher might face

9. Maintenance • Doing the change and it is becoming part of the routine, but you still have to think about it • Don’t overlook this teacher

10. Termination • Part of your routine • Automaticity

11. What stage of change are your teachers in?

12. Schools engage in self-destructive behavior

13. “as the number of changes multiplies, and as the time demands increase, people approach a dysfunction threshold, a point where they lose the capacity to implement changes”Darryl Conner, Managing at the Speed of Change

14. Getting Buy-In/ Enrollment • Build a relationship with the teacher, listen to their goals and challenges they face • Use active listening, share your stories • Let them know how you can support them

15. Research to Practice • Clarify: read, reread, take notes, talk • Synthesize: be able to summarize what is most important about what you are teaching • Break it down: Manageable Components • See it thought the teachers’ eyes (students’ eyes) • Simplify: make the complex clear through stories, anecdotes, analogies,ect

17. Think about something you have learned during the ELA Network this year that you will share with teachers.How can you break it down into manageable components?Simplify it for teachers?

18. Managing change • Do I know what is expected of me? • Do I have the materials and equipment I need? • Is their someone at work who encourages my development?

19. Adult learners • Problem Centered • Results oriented • Self Directed • Often skeptical about new information • Seek education that directly relates to their needs, timely and appropriate for their situation

20. Strategies for Teaching Adults • Use them as resources, provide many opportunities for dialogue • Clarify their expectations of the learning/session • Give them some control over the pace • Show how new learning can be applied to current situations, direct application • Variety of teaching materials

21. “Begin with the end in mind” • What do I want teachers to know or be able to do as a result of the session? • What will start to look different in classrooms tomorrow?

22. Planning PD

23. How will I follow up after the session? • Materials • Observations and feedback • Planning with teachers

24. Thinking about the strategy you want to share with you teachers, what are some ideas you just heard that would help you get buy-in?