Peer Mentoring/Coaching

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Success Stories with Peer Mentoring and Peer Coaching

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Peer Mentoring/Coaching Full Discussion

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Resources

  • The research into peer coaching gives evidence that coaching is critical to classroom implementation of instructional strategies (Joyce and Showers, 2002) and ultimately leads to increased student achievement.
  • Student Achievement Through Staff Development – by Bruce Joyce and Beverly Showers (2002)
  • Peer Coaching for Educators by Barbara Gottesman (2002)
  • How to Plan and Implement a Peer Coaching Program (from National Staff Development Council) by Pam Robbins
  • The American Institutes for Research (AIR), under contract with OVAE - PRO-NET 2000 - developed the Adult Educators' Guide to Designing Instructor Mentoring. The guide includes issues that agencies need to consider in designing, implementing, and evaluating mentoring. It recommends steps for setting up a mentoring program and offers suggestions for ways programs can support mentoring. The guide includes a strategic planning tool and profiles of several ABE and ESL programs that have implemented mentoring. You can locate the guide at http://www.calpro-online/resources/pro-net
  • Rita Peterson's "Mentor Teacher's Handbook" http://www.gse.uci.edu/doehome/EdResource/Publications/MentorTeacher/Contents.html
  • Two resources for mentoring listed on the CAELA Web site are:
Creating a Professional Workforce in Adult ESL Literacy by Jo Ann Crandall http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/CRANDALL.html
Fact Sheet on Professional Development and Adult English Language Instruction http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/collections/factsheets.html#prof
The information in both of these, as well as the resources and references listed at the end of them, will help those mentoring teachers of adult English language learners.
In addition, in development for fall, 2007, is The CAELA Guide for Adult ESL Trainers. In addition to workshop modules, study circles and information on using the CAELA Web site for professional development, there is also a section on training, which contains a chapter on peer coaching and mentoring. This section contains an explanation of the difference between peer coaching and mentoring, a rationale for each one and when to use each, how to organize a mentoring project, including the qualities of a good mentor and how to guide mentors through pre- and post-observation conversations with a mentee. The CAELA Guide for Adult ESL Trainers is currently being reviewed and piloted and will be available fall, 2007.
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