A virtual coaching model of professional development to increase teachers' digital learning competencies

2022 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 103544
Author(s):  
Wendi K. Zimmer ◽  
Sharon D. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Coaching Model ◽  
Virtual Coaching ◽  
Learning Competencies

Can Virtual Replace In-person Coaching? Experimental Evidence on Teacher Professional Development and Student Learning in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacobus Cilliers ◽  
Brahm Fleisch ◽  
Janeli Kotzé ◽  
Nompumelelo Mohohlwane ◽  
Stephen Taylor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
Home Language ◽  
Oral Language Proficiency ◽  
Virtual Coaching ◽  
Negative Effect

Virtual communication holds the promise of enabling low-cost professional development at scale, but the benefits of in-person interaction might be difficult to replicate. We report on an experiment in South Africa comparing on-site with virtual coaching of public primary school teachers. After three years, on-site coaching improved students' English oral language and reading proficiency (0.31 and 0.13 SD, respectively). Virtual coaching had a smaller impact on English oral language proficiency (0.12 SD), no impact on English reading proficiency, and an unintended negative effect on home language literacy. Classroom observations show that on-site coaching improved teaching practices, and virtual coaching led to larger crowding-out of home language teaching time. Implementation and survey data suggest technology itself was not a barrier to implementation, but rather that in-person contact enabled more accountability and support.

Teachers’ Professional Development in a Climate of Educational Reform

1993 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Warren Little
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Educational Reform ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
School Organization ◽  
Reform Initiatives ◽  
Coaching Model ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Teachers Professional Development ◽  
Policies And Practices

This essay posits a problem of fit among five streams of reform and prevailing configurations of teachers’ professional development. It argues that the dominant training-and-coaching model—focused on expanding an individual repertoire of well-defined classroom practice—is not adequate to the conceptions or requirements of teaching embedded in present reform initiatives. Subject matter collaboratives and other emerging alternatives are found to embody six principles that stand up to the complexity of reforms in subject matter teaching, equity, assessment, school organization, and the professionalization of teaching. The principles form criteria for assessing professional development policies and practices.

Building Professionals’ Capacity: The Cascading Coaching Model

2021 ◽  
pp. 109830072110392
Author(s):  
Moon Y. Chung ◽  
James D. Lee ◽  
Hedda Meadan ◽  
Michelle M. Sands ◽  
Ban Sleiman Haidar
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Family Engagement ◽  
Functional Relation ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Probe Design ◽  
Intervention Package ◽  
Coaching Model ◽  
Behavior Analysts ◽  
Multiple Probe

The importance of family engagement in their children’s education and treatment is emphasized by researchers, professional organizations, and legislatures. Providing services with caregivers via telepractice has gained more support and is becoming especially timely due to the current pandemic and social distancing requirements. Professionals, such as board-certified behavior analysts (BCBAs), who work with caregivers with children with disabilities may benefit from receiving professional development on strategies for building better rapport with caregivers and coaching them to bring about maximum clinical efficacy. The current pilot study replicated an earlier study by Meadan et al. to examine the effects of the Coaching Caregiver Professional Development (CoCarePD) intervention package, in which BCBAs received training and coaching from researchers via telepractice, on their caregiver coaching practices. A single-case, multiple-probe design study across three BCBAs was conducted, and findings support a functional relation between the CoCarePD and BCBAs’ use of coaching practices.

The Cascading Coaching Model for Supporting Service Providers, Caregivers, and Children

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hedda Meadan ◽  
Moon Y. Chung ◽  
Michelle M. Sands ◽  
Melinda R. Snodgrass
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Functional Relation ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Coaching Model ◽  
Young Children With Disabilities

Teaching caregivers to support their young children’s language development is recommended as an effective early language intervention, and caregiver-implemented interventions are recognized as evidence-based. However, as the natural change agents for training and coaching caregivers, early intervention (EI) service providers are in need of professional development to effectively coach caregivers to use interventions with their child. The purpose of this study was to examine the Coaching Caregivers Professional Development program (CoCare PD) in which researchers train and coach EI service providers via telepractice in caregiver coaching, a set of skills useful in nurturing partnerships with families to support caregivers’ use of evidence-based practices with their young children with disabilities. A single-case research study across four EI service providers was conducted and findings support a functional relation between training and coaching EI service providers via telepractice and providers’ use of coaching practices with families on their caseload.

scholarly journals Coaching in foreign language training of social sciences students as a facilitator of their personal and professional development

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-221
Author(s):  
Ofeliia A. Azarova
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Coaching Model ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Psychological Assistance ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
Goals And Objectives

The coaching model of training in the field of Arts is an element of the psychological support in a pedagogical activity. Such a support is primarily aimed at creating personal and value guidelines, evolving students’ potential in the field of self-determination and self-development, including, while studying a foreign language, in the content, goals and objectives such components as psychological assistance to students in solving their educational and daily problems, overcoming barriers and demotivators for learning a non-native language. The coaching model allows to teach more effectively and develop students’ ability to study on their own and think critically, to find a way out in difficulties or dangerous life situations. The specifics of the activity oblige a coach to plan classes in a life-affirming manner, to introduce innovations competently and warily, to resist stereotyping, to mitigate negative feelings, self-doubt. At the end of the article, a number of psychological and pedagogical conditions are proposed for putting into practice the coaching model of foreign language training.

scholarly journals TEACHERS COMPETENCIES PROFILE IN DIGITAL LEARNING ERA: PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT AND SELECTING DIGITAL RESOURCES

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-116
Author(s):  
Budi Wibawanta ◽  
Imanuel Adhitya Wulanata Chrismastianto ◽  
Billy Mumu
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Teacher Competencies ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Professional Teacher ◽  
Technological Developments

Abstract: Observing technological developments in the digital learning era with increasingly massive 21st-century skills approach in the education sector must be responded to with professional teacher competence. This study aims to analyze the extent to which the teacher's competencies in professional engagement and selecting digital sources in the teaching and learning process. The research methodology used was survey research to subject's teachers as many as 61 respondents located at Dian Harapan Karawaci School, Tangerang. Respondent data collection was carried out by filling in an online questionnaire using google form media which was analyzed qualitatively descriptively. The results showed that the three aspects of a teacher's competencies profile in the digital learning era have been achieved in a good category so that they can meet the criteria for teacher's competencies profile as expected. Even though it has reached the good category, there are two sub-aspects with supporting items that need further efforts to improve teacher competence through professional development or similar teacher training, namely DCPD-3 and DCPD-4.Keywords: Teacher, competencies, professional engagement, digital resources 

scholarly journals Enhancing Faculty Performance through Coaching: Targeted, Individualized Support

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa McDowell ◽  
Laurie Bedford ◽  
Lyda DiTommaso Downs
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
College Leadership ◽  
Coaching Model ◽  
Faculty Orientation ◽  
Professional Development Needs ◽  
Strong Culture

<p>Coaching in higher education is a relatively new field; although, it has been taking place in educational institutions for some time, even if it was not labeled as such. This paper describes the faculty development filosophies of a US-based higher education institution with a strong culture of supporting faculty and promoting social change. A coaching model was implemented as a means for professional development. It was designed to be facilitated through a peer relationship and it offers problem-focused, contextualized opportunities for faculty to collaborate, thus making the experience and outcome more meaningful. The coaching model is individualized, confidential, non-evaluative, and incorporates three pathways to support the professional development needs of faculty: self-assigned, a request from college leadership as a means to support faculty in an identified area of need, or the New Faculty Orientation (NFO) instructor may recommend a faculty member for coaching as a way to further engage in topics not discussed in-depth in NFO.</p>

scholarly journals DIGITAL TWIN OF THE POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION INSTITUTION AS AN ECOSYSTEM OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Tamara Sorochan ◽  
Lyubov Kartashova ◽  
Andrii Hurzhii
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

The article highlights new views on the possibilities of teachers’ professional development in postgraduate education system, due to the transition from learning management systems (LMS) to the next generation digital learning environment (NGDLE) as an ecosystem of digital tools to support the activities of subjects of the educational process. For the first time, the authors have revealed the signs of environmental friendliness of the NGDLE, have characterized it as an open, stable, safe and comfortable system for subjects of the educational process, providing information exchange between them, as well as between them and the world around them. Such digital ecosystems are created as digital twins of the real postgraduate education institutions for the efficient lifelong learning and teachers’ professional development. The practical implementation of these new generation concepts has been presented on the example of the Ukrainian Open University of Postgraduate Education, designed to organize and support non-formal postgraduate education. It has become a complex of digital solutions aimed at the implementation of EdTech with a priority in the successful functioning of virtual chairs, conducting the educational process (formal/non-formal education), professional development of students and teachers, attracting people from different regions of the country to training and teaching, highlighting innovative educational practice, etc.

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