Peer Coaching For Educators

Can teachers, principals, and professors lead their students toward profound learning until they have been there themselves? Peer coaching offers a remarkable vehicle to join with students as learners and together build a community of learners. Peer coaching is a powerful process whereby professional educators can assist and be assisted by fellow educators of equal status, and this volume presents it all with clarity, economy, honesty, and conviction. This volume will be of interest and value not only to classroom teachers and school administrators, but also to central office personnel, and university faculty committed to promoting adult development within the schools.

Can teachers, principals, and professors lead their students toward profound learning until they have been there themselves? Peer coaching offers a remarkable vehicle to join with students as learners and together build a community of learners, and this volume presents it all with clarity, economy, honesty, and conviction.

Barbara Gottesman is Principal of SYNAPSE Consulting, and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at San Jose State University. In her nearly 30 years in education, she has earned experience in every aspect of education from her start as an elementary teacher through a tenure as school principal, and finally as an education professor.