Teacher Librarian Peer Coaching - register by May 25

The registration deadline for our next cohort of the Teacher Librarian Peer Coaching program is on May 25. We had a wonderful time working with this year’s participants, and would love to have another large group again for the coming year. It’s a year-long, eight-session program that is a great opportunity for teacher-librarians to build both their leadership and technology skills in active, project-based workshops. More information is below and at the registration web page at https://register.psesd.org/class_info.php?CID=34177 . Please let me know if you have any questions!

Conn McQuinn
Assistant Executive Director, ETSC
800 Oakesdale Ave SW
Renton, WA 98057
(425) 917-7929 – Seattle
(253) 778-7929 – Tacoma

The Teacher Librarian Peer Coaching program is designed to help schools implement a professional development model that can enhance standards-based instruction by assisting teachers to offer students engaging, technology-rich, learning activities. The program will involve the incorporation of the Big 6 research process and teaching inquiry with primary sources.

Teacher-librarians will be trained to serve as peer coaches for colleagues in this program. As coaches, they will assist their peers in identifying ways that technology can strengthen classroom curriculum and enhance their students’ academic achievement. They will help their colleagues to develop the necessary technology skills and instructional strategies needed to integrate technology into teaching and learning. Coaches will also assist collaborating teachers to blend strong instructional practices and technology into classroom activities by discussing and sharing teaching practices, and by supporting efforts to enrich student learning through the use of technology and engaged learning.

The Teacher Librarian Peer Coaching program is comprised of eight days of training, which will be conducted over the course of a twelve-month period. This course is Part 1 of a two-part program. Participants who sign up for Part 1 will be automatically enrolled in Part 2 at no additional charge.

Part 1 will take place during the spring and summer of 2012 (dates below) and will include Sessions 1-4 of the program.

Part 2 will include Session 5-8 of the program. Session 5 will occur online and Sessions 6-8 will take place face-to-face during the 2012-2013 school year in October, February, and May. More information about these sessions will be shared during the preceding face-to-face sessions of Part 1. Sessions 6-8 are designed to build coaching skills and give participants a chance to work with other coaches to share what is working, and to discuss ways to address coaching issues they face in their schools.

The Washington Library Media Association (WLMA) will offer limited scholarships for WLMA members to attend the Teacher Librarian Peer Coaching program. Information and the application link will be posted soon on the WLMA website at http://www.wlma.org/.