What is it about?
We worked with partners of co-teachers to provide training on evidence-based strategies and key principles of bug-in-ear coaching. Teachers then observed their co-teacher and provided real-time feedback on their co-teacher's use of the evidence-based strategies. Teachers enjoyed the peer coaching and improved in their skills during the coaching sessions.
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Why is it important?
Supporting teachers to use the knowledge they acquire is critical for professional development to be meaningful. Peer-coaching may be a cost-effective and feasible mechanism for enhancing teachers' transfer of knowledge gleaned from training into practice in their classrooms.
Perspectives
I really enjoyed working WITH co-teachers on this project. Hearing changes in their language with young children as well as in their discussions with one another were rewarding. Seeing assistant and lead teachers provide peer-coaching to master teachers was also influential as the hierarchical roles were broken down and all teachers were providing one another with feedback. Exciting!
Dr. Jennifer R. Ottley
Ohio University
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This page is a summary of: Impact of Bug-in-Ear Professional Development on Early Childhood Co-Teachers’ Use of Communication Strategies, Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, February 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0271121416631123.
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