Digital Learning & Teaching Coaching Roadmap | ECI519 SP2015

ORIENTATION
UNIT ONE
UNIT TWO
UNIT THREE
UNIT FOUR
UNIT FIVEi
Your Transformational Coaching Report
Client Goals Revisited |
Strategic Activities Engaged in To Meet Goal |
Your Clients Progress towards Goal |
Evidence of Changes in Practice |
Your Next Steps & Coaching Moves |
Your Name
Stephen Barringer
Year & Semester
Spring 2015

ORIENTATION
Coaching Definition
My definition of coaching is Using proven methods of instructional strategies to meet the needs of another individual in order to help them achieve their goals.

UNIT ONE
PERSONAL COACHING STATEMENTS | Building Your Mission & Vision
I want to coach teachers because As educational technology is invented, changed and improved, I want to make it easier for teachers to be able to incorporate them
easily into their everyday teaching.
I know Im an effective coach when I see teachers using different technologies in their classroom even when I have not helped or prompted them to.
I hope that as a result of my coaching, this will be true Teachers will be comfortable and knowledgeable enough to seek out, try, and use new technologies in their
classroom as part of their lesson and unit planning.

My coaching MISSION is To amass a wealth of knowledge on educational technology so that teachers are able to use me as a resource to help them utilize
technology regularly.
My coaching VISION is . To create a community of educators that are not only capable of using technology but are also enthusiastic about the different and
creative ways that it can be used within their classrooms.
Craft your own coaching manifesto where you name and describe your beliefs about coaching and your work OR your beliefs about coaching and how they
fit with pursuing your Masters in Digital Learning & Teaching. SEE CHAPTER 3 SECTION FOUR - Transformational Coaching Manifesto

My Coaching Manifesto
1. Be Reliable: One of my core beliefs is to be reliable. In my short experience as an ITF here I have found that one of the most
appreciated things I can do is responding to a teachers question or need in a timely manner. I seem to be constantly surprising people
when I show up or reply to an email minutes after they have contacted me. In addition to being readily available I want people to see
me as someone that is knowledgeable enough to come up with not only solutions to malfunctioning equipment but someone that also
can offer solutions to strategies for teaching curriculum with or without the use of technology. If the teachers see me as an educator
first and foremost they will trust me to be able to help them with their instruction.
2. Be Ready for Anything: Another of my core beliefs is that a coach should easily adapt to what is needed. Each teacher, just
like students, will come with a different set of skills and needs. A good teacher or coach will meet them where they are. I need to be
able to understand what each teacher needs and figure out the best way I can help them. Sometimes this might be as simple as
showing them a new tool, other times it will be coming up with and teaching lessons with and for them.
3. Be a Facilitator: Give a man a fish he eats for a day, teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime. This is what comes to mind of
when I think of a teacher or coach as a facilitator. Some teachers will require more help than others but even still I want to be able to
get teachers to a point where they become active in seeking out and learning how to use technology in their instruction. I do want to
be able to suggest tools and strategies whenever needed but I would also like to get to a point where many teachers are showing me
new things that I can share with others.
4. Be Aware of the Big Picture: As an ITF at my school I need to understand the direction the district or state is going, how it
affects us in the school, and direct teachers accordingly. In any given year there are a number of new initiatives short term and long
term that can alter our instruction. There are other ones that might not affect us at all. My goal is to make sure that teachers are
informed as much as possible about where we are headed so that they will not be blindsided by anything new, or put a lot of time and
effort in to things that are no longer going to be used in the near future.
5. Be an Example: Technology is the future! Yes, it sounds corny and cliche but I think that this is something that educators need
to be aware of. More and more technology is going to be integrated into the classroom not only as a way to present learned material
but as a method to learn the concepts to begin with. Teacher edited videos with embedded questions, PhETs, Flipped Classrooms are all
tools and strategies that are probably going to become more mainstream. As a leader in this school I should model lessons that utilize
new technologies so that others can see them in action.

UNIT TWO
Coaching Client Information
Client Name | Mike Henning
Grade & Subject | 4th Grade
Years of Experience | 3 Years

CLIENTS GOALS (What do they want help with when it comes to digital learning and teaching?) |
1) To make technology accessible and productive for all students.
2) Teach students how to search for appropriate and useful information on the Internet.
Rationale| There is a wide range of student abilities in the classroom. They range from inability to log in to students that can program. Not all kids have this technology at
home. Some due to economic status some from parents fear of too much screen time.
NEXT STEP ACTIVITIES
Client and Coach together| Meet regularly to plan for where technology will be appropriate in upcoming lessons. Formulate a plan to gather data (informal or formal) on
the classs comfort and ability level with technology. Explore district resources readily available for student use in fact finding.
Client | Reflect on current technology usage and how well it has gone. Make a list of issues that has made using technology difficult in the past.
Coach (you)| Start working on lesson to help students find reliable information using technology. Create a Google survey to assess students comfort and ability levels.
Complete my schedule of meetings with client as well as time for me to complete my tasks.

REVIEW the following Sample Schedule

CREATE a similar schedule for the next 6 weeks (OBVIOUSLY your schedule will be by DAY of the WEEK ONLY {not times all day long}. Be sure to COLOR
code your coaching activities ...use the COLOR/Activities from sample above or ADD YOUR OWN.

****The GOAL here is to have a REGULAR schedule of activities with your client. This is the GOAL life does happen but YOU
MUST connect with your client EVERY week in order to successfully complete activities moving forward.
Monday
Week 1

Observe Client

Tuesday (9-10)

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday (9-9:45 or
11:30-12:30)

Meet with Client to

discuss comfort level
with technology and
goals

Reflect on meeting and

plan next steps and
appropriate tech for
client to use.

Meet with other

coaches to help gather
ideas for client

Meet with Client to

share technology
options to achieve
goals

Create student Survey

Meet with Client to

share resources and
student survey

Week 2

Use client feedback to

plan how to use
selected tech.

Meet with Client to

finalize plan of how to
use tech to reach goals

Reflect and begin to

gather resources

Week 3

Give student survey

Meet with Client to

discuss survey results

Reflect on results and

Use results to come up
clients input on results with ideas for student
research projects

Week 4

Work on lesson plan

Week 5

Work on lesson plan

Week 6

Work on lesson plan

Meet with Client

Meet with Client

Meet with Client

Work on lesson plan

Observe Client

Work on lesson plan

Work on lesson plan

Work on lesson plan

Work on lesson plan

*Week 4+ probably just once a week - depends on teacher availability.

KEY - Observations, Planning, Reflecting, Meeting with Client, Student Lesson, Meet with other Staff

Meet with Client

Meet with Client

Meet with Client

Meet with Client

My SELF-Exploration
What am I looking forward to in coaching this client? Working with a teacher that has a real strong bond with his students and has lots of great ideas for
lessons.
What might be challenging about working with this client? He usually does not think too much about how to make technology work for him.
Which coaching skills might I need to develop in order to be effective with this client? Walking the lines between friends, peers, and coach.

UNIT THREE

Weeks 7 in NCSU course - Week 1 in Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-ED

Coaching | Stewarding the

Future in Digital Learning &
Teaching

COACHING ACTIVITY

RESOURCES

OUTLINE how you will engage in effective

communication and collaboration with your
client?

List ideas, concepts and/or tools you have

explored for this coaching activity from your
learning.

What might you DO/PREPARE for this coaching

activity?

INCLUDE ideas, concepts, etc. from BOTH

MOOC-ED and 519.

MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS
What evidence might you consider to
evaluate progress for this coaching
activity?

Plan
Listen
Plan
Reasearch
Plan
Reflect
Repeat and and all steps above!

Obviously we are going to communicate a lot

through conferences and email but I think to
make our communication effective requires
lots of planning, listening, and reflecting. The
planning and reflecting will ensure that when
we do meet that we are making progress
towards our goals. Proper listening will
ensure that my client trusts me and will
respect suggestions I have for them.

I am going to listen to my
listening as Aguilar puts it. This
sounds a little weird but what I took
away from that is that I need to
focus on just what my client is
saying without any inner noise and
make sure I am listening with a
specific purpose. I this case I am
going to make sure that I keep both
my clients goals and my goals for
my client in mind when we are
having our conferences.
I will use Active Listening
I will use Clarifying Questions
Id say that one of the most
used words in the ISTE standards for
coaching is Model. In my plan above
I did not really work in a specific
time or lesson for modeling a lesson.
I will go back and revise this.
Make my client feel as an
equal and that he is being listened
to.
Plan questions ahead of time.

Clients attitude
towards the use of new
technology in the classroom
Meeting notes and
progress towards our goals
Student usage of tech
in the classroom
The level of
involvement from the client
- is he just listening and
using my ideas, or is he
coming up with some on his
own outside of out meetings
as well. Use meeting notes
to keep track

Reflection | Think about the last time you communicated and/or collaborated your client you selected in Unit 2 review COACHING CONVERSATION ANALYSIS
TOOL . what were your areas of strength? challenges? BE SPECIFIC about your conversation.
We have been basically out of school for the last two weeks so I have not met with my client much other than our first couple meetings where we simply set some
meeting dates and some basic goals. I think my non-verbal communication was good and I was able to do well with active listening in responding to my clients goals.
There wasnt much of an opportunity to give feedback on anything in these two meetings as they were our first ones. I will meet again with my client at least once

this week and will have more to write about then.

Week 8 in NCSU course - Week 2 in Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-ED

Extending Your Personal

Learning Network |
Becoming a Connected

COACHING ACTIVITY

RESOURCES

MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS

NOTE any strategies you plan to employ to expand

your PLN as well as keep your current PLN
motivated. How will you coach your client to
expand their learning networks to meet their
professional development needs? List any specific
steps or tasks that you might find useful in your
role as a coach. This may include planning for any
face to face or synchronous meetings, etc.

List ideas, concepts and/or tools you have

explored for this coaching activity from your
learning. (BOTH MOOC-ED and 519)

What evidence might you consider to

evaluate progress for this coaching activity?

What might you DO/PREPARE for this coaching activity?

Educator

Expand my PLN resources to more

than one platform
Encourage my coachee to join one
with me
Set goals for my coachee to find
resources pertaining to what it is they want
to learn
Help find these resources on that
network
Make sure I model being active
online

Use PLNs to help my

coachie search for new and useful
Exlore and be aware of my
clients ZPD to really target and
scaffold areas of need
Use surveys to help
coachee get feedback from
students
Videotape my coachee to
let him see how he looks and
sounds to the students
Use Role Playing to help
get my coachee to see other
points of view

Coachee signs up for and

finds resources using Twitter or
Pinterest to begin his PLN
Completion of student
survey
Videotaped lesson
More detailed plan of
action to target my coachees
needs in his ZPD

Reflection | In what way(s) did you grow in your relationship with your client and PLNs this week?
I observed my coachee continuing a lesson that used Discovery Education Boardmaker. I had quickly given the students a tutorial last minute a few days ago when he
decided he wanted to use it. I think this cooperation has helped him be more open to using various technology in the class. We had talked in the beginning about
how there was a wide gap in students abilities but I think he saw that all students were engaged here even though there were different skill levels. The finished
projects might be a different story but it is a starting point. We have not been able to discuss PLNs as of yet.

Week 9 in NCSU course - Week 3 in Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-ED

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1Ebcs7Xnp1d I would have left in a comment but you have that turned off?

Exploring Frameworks |
Guiding Educators to
Enhance and Transform
Digital Learning and
Teaching

COACHING ACTIVITY

RESOURCES

MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS

HOW will you gently assess the TPACK /SAMR

strengths and areas of need or improvement in your
select client?

List ideas, concepts and/or tools you

have explored for this coaching activity
from your weekly learning. (BOTH MOOCED and 519)

What evidence might you consider to evaluate

progress for this coaching activity?

What methods will you use to gather this

information?
What strategies might you use during coaching to
help grow your clients TPACK?
What might you DO/PREPARE for this coaching activity?

First off I will keep these in mind the next time I

am observing my coachee. However, I think the best
way to help asses someones strengths and area of
needs is to sit down with them and talk. I will
introduce TPACK/SAMR to him and have a
conversation with him about what they are and how
they can help. I will explain how they help me with

Videos for explanation:

SAMR
TPACK

Observation tool

Notes from meeting with

coachee
Completed observaton tool
Coachees comfort with both
models

my planning and ask him for his own ideas about

how they can help. I will see how he feels about his
strengths and weaknesses in using them.

Reflection | What did you learn about yourself as you explored the TPACK and SAMR models?
I had not had much experience with SAMR. I think it is a great way to help evaluate a lessons level of tech involvement. I will be using this to help me really focus
on how I am attempting to integrate technology into classrooms. I want to involve technology at the higher levels where appropriate.
Refreshing myself with the TPACK model reminds me how important it is for me to get in in the grade level PLC meetings. I have not been able to get into them
nearly as much as I would have liked to. I have found that when teachers do come to ask me for help with integration I often have to ask many questions to try and
get myself caught up on what it is they are looking for. What exactly are they trying to teach the students and what are the final outcomes. I think if I was able to be
in on more meetings that this would be much easier. I also am not an expert at the curriculum at all grade levels (who is?) so being in there during planning will help
me focus on their goals. It also will help me improve my ability to integrate it at a higher level as most of the time when the teachers are looking for my help is
when they already have what they want in their head. It might be a good idea but they might be missing some great opportunities for tech integration along the way.

UNIT FOUR

Week 10 NCSU course - Week 4 in Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-ED

The Four Cs| Unpacking

Digital Age Skills

COACHING ACTIVITY

RESOURCES

MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS

DESCRIBE how you might promote the

implementation of 4 Cs (both tradition and
digital/virtual) in your clients classroom?

List ideas, concepts and/or tools you

have explored for this coaching activity
from your weekly learning. (BOTH
MOOC-ED and 519)

What evidence might you consider to evaluate

progress for this coaching activity?

What might you DO/PREPARE for this coaching activity?

The teacher I am working with is already very big on

community and students working together. A lot of
his lessons involve collaboration and communication
anyway. My school is also working with project based
learning so this sets up a fairly easy route to ensuring
the 4 Cs are all part if the lessons. The next step is to
encourage him to use more technology in his lessons.
I think one of the easiest ways to add tech to a lesson
that lends itself to the 4 Cs is with Google docs and
Google classroom. The ability to share and work
together in this environment is a great way to
promote the 4 Cs. I think my next steps with him is to
find out how comfortable he is with Google Docs and
its various uses. We could go through some
demonstrations and uses of Google docs in the
classroom and see what he thinks. We than can look
at where it can possibly be used in his next lessons
and units.

My 4 Cs presentation

Preparing 21st Century

Students for a Global Society: An
Educators Guide to the Four Cs
Google Classroom and
docs demos
4Cs Rubrics

digital

Clients use of Google Docs

Lesson plans that involve
collaboration
Notes from meetings
More lesson with PBL

Reflection | What would you like to learn more about, related to the 4Cs? What does your client want to learn more about? How do you know?
What are some other great tools that easily lend themselves to the 4Cs?

What standards specifically deal with the 4Cs and how do we make sure to hit on them?
Doesnt project based learning inherently hit on these?
Should we be constantly trying to do these all at once or can we utilize them one at a time?

Week 11 in NCSU course - Weeks 5 in Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-ED

COACHING ACTIVITY

Digital Citizenship |
Cultivating a Safe and
Responsible Digital Culture

BRAINSTORM how you will coach your client to

incorporate and model Digital Citizenship in order to
begin to build/
strengthen a culture of digital innovation.

RESOURCES

MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS

List ideas, concepts and/or tools you

have explored for this coaching activity
from your weekly learning. (BOTH
MOOC-ED and 519)

What evidence might you consider to evaluate

progress for this coaching activity?

What might you DO/PREPARE for this coaching activity?

I will plan a conversation around digital

citizenship. This should be a particularly easy
topic to bring up as in one of our previous
meetings we discussed how he had students
that had simply copied and pasted information
from wikipedia to their presentation.
Another topic he was interested in was
how to teach the students to effectively search

Cyberwise Digital
Citizenship
CommonSense.org
The Well-Rounded
Digital Citizen: A Thinglink

Planned lesson
Changes in student behaviors
Teacher uses digital citizen
ship language regularly
Anchor posters on digital
citizenship posted
Student signatures on
classroom digital pledge

for useful resources. This will be another easy

way to bring up safe searches.
I will locate the different useful tools for
these topics (common sense media has a ton!)
and present them to him
We can possibly find a time to schedule
a lesson on both of these topics in the near
future
I will model how to keep the students
aware of these things while they are working on
the computers
Create a digital pledge for the students
in his classroom to sign

Reflection | What might be the most challenging part of coaching Digital Citizenship for you? What is challenging for your client?
As with a lot of the lessons I need to teach dealing with 21st century skills the challenging part is finding the time. Teachers already are trying to cram about 9 hours
of instruction into the 4 hours they have left after specials, lunch, and recess. The good thing is that they can easily be integrated into lessons as long as the
teachers are already using or willing to use technology in their lessons. It still will take some time away from the content standards that are often a bit higher up on
the classroom teachers list. For my client and myself I think that some of the questions and issues he has had with his students really lends itself to these lessons. I

think we will be able to get some in pretty easily.

Week 12 in NCSU course - Weeks 6 in Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-ED

Sharpening Your
Instructional Technology
Coaching Skills | Vetting
Digital Tools and Resources

COACHING ACTIVITY

RESOURCES

MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS

IDENTIFY a set of strategies (i.e., questions/ checklists/

rubrics, etc.) that you will share with your client to
help build their capacity to vet their own selection of
tools and resources.

List ideas, concepts and/or tools

you have explored for this coaching
activity from your weekly learning.
(BOTH MOOC-ED and 519)

What evidence might you consider to evaluate

progress for this coaching activity?

What might you DO/PREPARE for this coaching activity?

In going through this weeks readings and resources I

liked the checklists and rubrics provided. I really liked
the ones by Kathy Schrock. Whenever I am looking for
or someone suggests a new app I always play and
evaluate them on my own for a bit to see if they will be
good what I want. I guess in my head I have a kind of

App Rubric
Kathy Schrock evals
Kathy Schrock site
Great Apps
checklist

Completed eval of an app by

client
app suggestions from client
meeting notes

checklist that I am going through but these make it

much easier and less subjective. The only thing about
being more objective with a checklist is that it covers a
wide range of people and uses while more often than
not teachers really want to know if it will fit perfectly
with their specific use. This can only really be done by
the teacher or maybe the ITF that is in on the planning
of the lesson and understands it completely. This
unfortunately does put a little more on a teachers
plate (which I hate to do). Or it could mean that they
really trust their ITF and include them in the planning
process. I think simply sharing these rubrics and
checklists will be very beneficial for teachers to see to
understand the process. Some will do it on their own,
some will still leave it to the experts. I am going to
share a lot of Kathy Schrocks site with my client as it
has eval tools and a bunch of great tools and apps for
him to try out.

Reflection | As you prepare to co-plan or co-teach a learning expereince integrating technology with your client . did you/they/together vet the digital tool or
resource? What did you find?

For us, the easiest new tool we had to introduce to his class was one of the gizmos from explorelearning. We had previously worked on finding resources and
utilizing Google docs better but now we wanted something that was more instructional. These gizmos are similar to phets in that they are like virtual lab
experiments. I had used this particular one last year and was able to share how well it went with my class. It was a great way for the students to get used to the
process of identifying rocks and minerals before having to test the actual samples when they got the kit.

SPRING BREAK
UNIT FIVE
Details of Co - Planned or Taught Learning Experience with Client
Curriculum /Professional (non education or adults) Standards

Planned Learning Activities (detail how 4Cs will be addressed)

Digital Tool or Resource Used

Formative Assessment
Other Materials/Resources

LEARNER Artifacts - Provide links to student created artifacts OR

images of student work.

Your Transformational Coaching Report

Client Goals Revisited |

Strategic Activities Engaged in To Meet Goal |

Your Clients Progress towards Goal |

Evidence of Changes in Practice |

Your Next Steps & Coaching Moves |

FINAL Reflections on Your Coaching Experience