https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight Made with fortitude en-us 2018-11-14 16:02:05 UTC 2018-11-29 16:33:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/20296791/73c248b6183dcc4d5ed48f3cbe8d5355/Photo_on_11_14_18_at_8_47_PM.jpg abentley7 https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309373601 Andie]]> 2018-11-29 16:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309373601 https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309373623 "The answer is: share answers dialogically rather than directly. when coaches embrace a dialogical approach, they share  what they know  when it is appropriate, being careful not to offer suggestions before they are necessary."
- p. 141

I like this phrasing of sharing suggestions only  when it becomes necessary. I should hold the belief that the teacher should be able to invent their own improvements, with my support, and then adjusting to a more instructive, advice-monstery, stance as needed.  The challenge continues to come up though, about a teacher selecting a strategy that may be low-impact (room arrangement) and when it is appropriate to push on that. I don't think there are any cut and dry solutions to this challenge, but it's often something I ponder.
 ]]> 2018-11-29 16:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309373623 https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309373652 p. 137 The coach...[can] reframe the conversation away from complaint to commitment.  For example, if a teacher says ,"My biggest roadblock is that these students don't care about learning at all, the coach might ask, "What would it look like if your students did care about learning?"...

Comment:  I NEED THIS ADVICE!  Turning complaints into something productive is so important, so helpful, so hard..having this kind of script seems invaluable to me!


]]> 2018-11-29 16:07:41 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309373652 pkelly23 https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309373806 #3 Invent Improvements:
"When instructional coaches embrace a dialogical stance, they let go of the need to be right...when sharing strategies, asking teachers how they would like to modify them to take advantage of their strengths as teachers along with the strengths and weaknesses of their students."

Comment:
I don't like the idea that if I have a clear suggestion, I would hold it and not share. Too many times I hear people who feel this way about colleagues, "If they already have an answer, why are they asking the question?" However, MY answer is based on my experience, my assumptions about the teacher, the students, etc., which could be easily wrong. Approaching the conversation dialogically allows myself and the teacher to have a clearer understanding of the best approach.]]> 2018-11-29 16:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309373806 https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309375353 Here is the beauty of MITs [Most Important Tasks]: Usually the small, unimportant tasks that we need to get done everyday ( emails, phone calls, paperwork, errands, meeting, internet browsing etc) will get in the way of our important longer-term tasks...(p 149)

He is talking about this in terms of the coaching cycle but I also think that it could apply to my daily work. I think often little things get in the way and I have such a long to- do list that I can get to the end of the day unsure what I accomplished. Maybe having 2-3 important tasks each day would help be get more done!]]> 2018-11-29 16:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309375353 https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309383420 2018-11-29 16:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309383420 colin_mckaig https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309385445 "Every person lans differently...some are more comfortable with...improvisational planning than others"

Cognitive flexibility seem crucial in this process; that said we deal with lots of black and white thinkers, lots of binary perspectives. I think we must anticipate this and plan for it. ]]> 2018-11-29 16:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309385445 https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309390147 2018-11-29 16:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309390147 https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309391072 2018-11-29 16:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_mckaig/jimknight/wish/309391072