Transcript NCSM Coachig - Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative

Welcome to the Content Coaching
Sessions!
While you’re waiting for everyone to be seated,
please write on a sentence strip your answer to
both of the following questions:
 What are your expectations for taking
this course? What do you hope to
learn?
 How do you plan to use what you are
learning in this course?
Please post on the respective chart.
Pedagogical Content Coaching
in Mathematics
2012 Summer Institute
August 6 -10th
Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative
Leaders: Sandy Devlin and
Priscilla Solberg
Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative’s
Pedagogical Content Coaching
Overview of the Week
 To learn coaching cycle through video
 Visit classroom to “see it live”
 Opportunity to teach /coach real
classroom lesson
 Chance to learn and practice asking
good questions.
The Best Receive Coaching
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Pavarotti had a voice coach
Matt Cain has several coaches
Personal trainers are coaches
Psychologists are coaches
CEOs of Fortune 500 companies often have a coach
Therefore, why shouldn’t Teachers have coaches?
To Coach
To convey a
valued person
from where he
or she is to
where he or she
wants to be.
Evered and Selman, “Coaching and the Art of Management”
Qualities of an Effective Coach
Brainstorm:
What are the qualities of an effective
coach?
Lenses on Learning:
Classroom Observation and Teacher
Supervision In Elementary
Mathematics
Center for the Development of Teaching
Education Development Center
Newton , Massachusetts
Catherine Miles Grant, Barbara Scott Nelson, et. al
Lenses on Learning: “ Role Play
- Trying on Different Coaching
Styles”
Giving advice
Sharing curiosity about children’s mathematical
thinking
Asking questions and finding out what the
teacher intended
Reflection on Role Play
1. How does this feel for the coach?
How does this feel for the coached
teacher?
2. What do you gain by this approach?
What do you lose by this approach?
Math Coaching Field Guide
Charting Your Course
 Read your section of Chapter 1 “Being a Successful Math Coach: Ten
 Guiding Principles”
 In trios, we will jigsaw the chapter. Your trio
will be assigned one section to read.
 Create a poster that helps others understand
the principle.
 Please number and title each principle and
design a graphic to help us remember.
Prepare for Team Planning
 In your binder there is a list of suggestions
for this time slot.
 This time will jump-start building the
relationships between yourself and your
teachers.
 Sometime during the week during your time
together, please read Chapter 3 of
Responding to Diversity by K. Enright
 Have fun, and give it a go.
 We’ll debrief how it went after lunch.
End of presentation for
morning.
Debrief
 How did your first session
working/sharing as a team go?
 Feel free to add to our “Burning Issues”
chart any concerns or problems that we
could help you brainstorm solutions to.
 This chart will be up all week.
Math Coaching Field Guide
Charting Your Course
 Sharing posters.
Harold Asturias
Director of the Center for
Mathematics Excellence and Equity
at Lawrence Hall of Science
U.C. Berkeley
Reflections of the Day
 On the 3 x 5 card, on one side, please write
what worked for you today.
 On the other side, please share what didn’t
work for you.
 Please be sure to include whether you are
writing about the coaching session, the POM
session, or you team work session.
End of Day One