Welcome to the Content Coaching Sessions! While you

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Welcome to the Content Coaching Sessions!While
youre waiting for everyone to be seated, please
write on a sentence strip your answer to both of
the following questions

• What are your expectations for taking this
  course? What do you hope to learn?
• How do you plan to use what you are learning in
  this course?
• Please post on the respective chart.

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Pedagogical Content Coachingin Mathematics
2012 Summer Institute August 6 -10th

• Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative Leaders
  Sandy Devlin and
• Priscilla Solberg

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Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiatives
Pedagogical Content Coaching
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Overview of the Week

• To learn coaching cycle through video
• Visit classroom to see it live
• Opportunity to teach /coach real classroom lesson
• Chance to learn and practice asking good
  questions.

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The Best Receive Coaching

• Pavarotti had a voice coach
• Matt Cain has several coaches
• Personal trainers are coaches
• Psychologists are coaches
• CEOs of Fortune 500 companies often have a coach

Therefore, why shouldnt Teachers have coaches?
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To Coach
To convey a valued person from where he or she is
to where he or she wants to be.
Evered and Selman, Coaching and the Art of
Management
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Qualities of an Effective Coach

• Brainstorm
• What are the qualities of an effective coach?

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Lenses on LearningClassroom Observation and
Teacher Supervision In Elementary Mathematics

• Center for the Development of Teaching
• Education Development Center
• Newton , Massachusetts
• Catherine Miles Grant, Barbara Scott Nelson, et.
  al

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Lenses on Learning Role Play - Trying on
Different Coaching Styles

• Giving advice
• Sharing curiosity about childrens mathematical
  thinking
• Asking questions and finding out what the teacher
  intended

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Reflection on Role Play

• 1. How does this feel for the coach?
• How does this feel for the coached teacher?
• 2. What do you gain by this approach?
• What do you lose by this approach?

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Math Coaching Field GuideCharting Your Course

• Read your section of Chapter 1-
• Being a Successful Math Coach Ten
• Guiding Principles
• In trios, we will jigsaw the chapter. Your trio
  will be assigned one section to read.
• Create a poster that helps others understand the
  principle.
• Please number and title each principle and design
  a graphic to help us remember.

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Prepare for Team Planning

• In your binder there is a list of suggestions for
  this time slot.
• This time will jump-start building the
  relationships between yourself and your teachers.
• Sometime during the week during your time
  together, please read Chapter 3 of Responding to
  Diversity by K. Enright
• Have fun, and give it a go.
• Well debrief how it went after lunch.

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End of presentation for morning.
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Debrief

• How did your first session working/sharing as a
  team go?
• Feel free to add to our Burning Issues chart
  any concerns or problems that we could help you
  brainstorm solutions to.
• This chart will be up all week.

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Math Coaching Field GuideCharting Your Course

• Sharing posters.

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Harold Asturias

• Director of the Center for Mathematics Excellence
  and Equity
• at Lawrence Hall of Science
• U.C. Berkeley

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Reflections of the Day

• On the 3 x 5 card, on one side, please write
  what worked for you today.
• On the other side, please share what didnt work
  for you.
• Please be sure to include whether you are writing
  about the coaching session, the POM session, or
  you team work session.

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End of Day One