Share Paper: Coaching a Winning Game: Leveraging Content Specific, Pedagogically Sound, Results Based Collegial Coaching to Cultivate Digitally Innovative Teaching Practices
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Katie Alaniz, Houston Baptist University/River Oaks Baptist School, United States
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Dawn Wilson, Houston Baptist University, United States
Abstract: Effectual educational leadership involves consistently seeking and implementing innovative professional development experiences for teachers. In today’s age of swift technology expansion within educational environments, professional development targeting digital integration represents an area of immense need. Collegial coaching for technology integration enables teachers to benefit from targeted, immediately applicable, pedagogically sound professional growth experiences within the context of their classroom settings. Using a variety of data sources (interviews, a post-coaching questionnaire, and analyses of journals kept by coaches and coached teachers), research presents methods for effectively assessing the impacts of collegial coaching endeavors and reveals highly positive impacts of collegial coaching.