Teacher Coaching

Why is change difficult?:

• Jane Gilbert:  http://www.shiftingthinking.org/?p=1953

‘Got to have a life of it’s own for it to sustain’

Innovated and reliant on one person an innovation will burn out and die.

• Mel Stopford - Engaging Learners Blog

• Kay Hawk and Jan Hill:  Coaching Teachers:  Effective professional development but difficult to achieve (2000)

• Micheal Fullan:  Retrieved from  http://www.michaelfullan.ca/handouts.htm
  Relationship first too fast/too slow
  If the leader comes on too strong the culture will rebel.  If the leader is overly respectful of the existing culture, he or she will become absorbed of the status quo.