Peer Coaching

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This paper discusses the concept of introducing peer coaching to school teachers. The paper examines the process of training a volunteer group of teachers in the clinical cycles and selecting teams or matching teachers. The scheduling of an initial round of clinical cycles is described. The paper analyzes the monitoring of peer coaching and emphasizes the importance of structured support from the school.

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"Peer coaching gives both beginning and experienced teachers an additional professional support system and emotional 'safety net.' During what is proving an increasingly difficult as well as rewarding direction for the teaching profession in the 21st century, it is necessary that teachers feel they have somewhere to turn to enrich their classroom skills and simply to discuss potential problems and solutions to the challenges of modern educators. Peer coaching is a confidential process through which two or more professional colleagues work together to mutually reflect on their current educational practices. They expand, refine, and build new skills together, share ideas, help teach one another, frequently aid one another in conducting classroom research and simply help one another to solve problems of the workplace, such as problems with difficult students or parents. (Robbins, 1991)"

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