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What is Peer Coaching?
Coaching is for growth - not correction or evaluation
A Peer Coach
Supports another person taking action toward his or her goals while simultaneously helping them develop expertise in planning, reflecting, problem solving and decision making.
Takes a nonjudgmental stance, uses highly effective skills of listening and speaking, tools of open-ended questions, pausing, paraphrasing and probing.
Focuses on the assumptions, perceptions, thinking and decision-making process of the other person to mediate resources, clarify intentions and identify options.
Background
ODE-ABLE, the Special Needs Task Force and the Central/Southeast ABLE Resource Center have been considering follow-up professional development for the LD Core Training Series. The Task Force members recommended making themselves available to programs and instructors for "technical assistance" in implementing the strategies learned in the LD Core Training. After researching the possibilities, the process evolved into providing special needs peer coaches who would work with teachers and administrators at their local level.
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