Peer coaching can help teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. Coaches receive training to build collaboration skills and confidence with technology. They then meet weekly with teachers to improve lessons, integrate technology, and provide hardware and software training. Coaches assist with a variety of technologies from interactive whiteboards and student response systems to digital cameras and internet resources to enhance lessons. They also help teachers and students use classroom computers and instructional technologies.

1. Tech Peer Coaching How peer coaching can help your classroom.

2. What is peer coaching? Coaches attend trainings throughout the school year to build collaboration skills and confidence in technology. Coaches meet with a single collaborating teacher once a week for 30 minutes to work on: Lesson Improvement Technology Integration Hardware and Software training Building technology confidence Using the internet to enhance lesson and units

3. What is Peer Coaching? Peer Coaches can help…. Call Tech Services if… Use classroom technologies to assist student learning Something isn’t working correctly.

4. Collaboration examples In primary grades: Making lessons on interactive white boards Using ActivExpression devices for classroom assessments Downloading premade lessons for use in the classroom Using digital cameras to document science projects

5. Collaboration examples In intermediate grades: Student PowerPoint presentations for animal research projects Student animated slide show projects to document science experiments Using internet music sites for holiday writing project Filming speeches of students as historical figures

6. Peer Coaches Can Help You Use Promethean and Smart Boards Create interactive lessons Student engagement

7. Peer Coaches Can Help You…. Document Cameras Showcasing student work Classroom demonstrations and instruction

8. Peer Coaches Can Help You…. ActivExpression Devices Formative and summative assessments Ensure 100% student participation

9. Peer Coaches Can Help You…. Projectors Visual Aid to classroom instruction

10. Peer Coaches Can Help You…. ActivSlates and Airliners Provides teacher mobility Allows students to interact in the lesson

11. Peer Coaches Can Help You…. Classroom Computers Research projects Assessments Enrichment activities Writing projects

12. When to call tech services When something isn’t working correctly. Copiers

13. When to call tech services When something isn’t working correctly. Printers

14. When to call tech services When something isn’t working correctly. Projectors

15. When to call tech services When something isn’t working correctly. Laptops

16. When to call tech services When something isn’t working correctly. Promethean and Smart Boards

17. Come join the FUSD peer coaches Your students thank you!