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Peer Coaching - MIND SETTING

So far, peer coaching sounds great!...

...to reduce teachers' isolation, to create collegial and professional environment, to provide a forum for problem solving, and skills transfer from training session to classroom.

Peer coaching is a delicate process. Principals and school leadership need to assess the implications at the initial stage - i.e. the planning stage of the program. At least with the following checklists:

1. Do we really want peer coaching to become a culture?

2. Are we ready for it? Clear about the concept and implementation?

3. Which model that will give immediate impact?

4. What are pre-conditions for change and cultural variables? The key success factors?

5. What are available support systems for peer coaching?

Implementing peer coaching is very much about creating a new culture... And the right mind-setting process is the prerequisite.

Next (the last posting) will be on the PROCESS.