Help People See What They Don't See
Today on my walk I listened to a few podcasts. The last two I listened to were connected to each other and to coaching.
The first podcast I listened to was Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud: Personalized Professional Learning: Teacher Voice and Choice in Coaching.
In this episode, he showed an example coaching where he asked the following questions:
- Can you describe the teaching situation?
- How much will you need to modify to do what you want to do?
- What is the specific activity you will do?
- What is the most important thing the kids will do?
- What is the most important outcome of the lesson? What is the most important thing you will need the kids to do?
- What will the kids do in the lesson that will help them reach the outcome?
- What are the most important things for you as the teacher to do to help them reach the outcome?
- What would you like me to give you feedback on?
In this podcast, Lori Kaufman talked about how she is not teaching the people she works with because they know more than her. What she says she does is help people see what they don't see.
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help people see what they don't see
So often I feel intimidated when working with other teachers because I do not know their content. But that is not as important as helping them pinpoint areas they want to work on.