1. Peer Coaching .... sharing best practice?
Helen Goodall
February 2014

2. This session
A whistle-stop tour of coaching in schools: The ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ of coaching, with particular emphasis on co-coaching or peer coaching.

3. What is coaching?
"A collaborative solution-focused, results-orientated and systematic process in which the coach facilitates the enhancement of work performance, life experience, self-directed learning and personal growth of the coachee." (Grant, 2000) “Put simply, coaching is a conversation, or series of conversations, one person has with another” (Starr, 2008)

4. The National Framework for Coaching & Mentoring
Mentoring is a structured, sustained process for supporting professional learners through significant career transitions
Specialist Coaching is a structured, sustained process for enabling the development of a specific aspect of a professional learner’s practice
Collaborative (Co-) Coaching is a structured, sustained process between two or more professional learners to enable them to embed new knowledge and skills from specialist sources in day-to-day practice CUREE 2006

5. Your special person
Think of someone who has been an important positive influence in your life
How did they support
you?
What did they do?

6. Qualities and skills of an effective peer coach

7. A Cycle of Learning
Unconscious
incompetence
Conscious
competence

8. A Model for a Learning Conversation - GROW
GOAL
REALITY
OPTIONS
WIN COMMITMENT
Source: John Whitmore

9. Challenging your co-coach
When might it be necessary for you to challenge your co-coach?
How can you do this constructively?

10. Confidence Building How does confidence building come in to coaching?
In what ways might you help to build your co-coach’s self-confidence?

11. Providing feedback Maintain a balance – don’t just criticise!
Concentrate on behaviours – what you have observed or noticed – rather than ‘the person’
Provide examples
Suggest alternatives if appropriate
Concise and timely

12. Setting up a peer coaching partnership
Who could you work with?
How will you establish the partnership?
What do you both want from the partnership?
Establish boundaries – when, where, how long to meet, sharing the time etc – also, agree confidentiality
Regularly review how well it is working