Peer Coaching Action Research Paper - Houston Baptist University

The Peer Coaching Process 9objectives. It was necessary, then, to spend outside time to explore and to become familiar withnew tools that would effectively meet colleagues’ curricular objectives. For example, I waspreviously unfamiliar with the Web 2.0 tools Glogster Edu and Prezi, however I becameknowledgeable about their features and was therefore able to instruct my colleagues in how tonavigate the tools and utilize them in a classroom setting.As an additional means of support, instructional guides were created and tailored to eachcolleague’s needs, providing directions for working with tools such as Glogster Edu (AppendixB) and Prezi (Appendix C). These supplementary resources can serve as a reference guide forfuture use of these tools as well. While the time necessary for gathering information andcreating these tutorials was demanding, they proved to be valuable resources for both the peercoach and coachees. Additionally, these guides can be easily reformatted to serve as a studenthandout, which was beneficial for Colleague Three when introducing the Glogster Edu tool inclass.One-on-one time with colleagues was dedicated to guiding them in setting up educatorand/or student accounts for the various technology tools. I created and shared a template witheach colleague providing a visual reference for how to efficiently document student log ininformation for Quia.com/web and Glogster Edu (Appendix D). The template provided anexample to reference for procedural logistics when implementing technology tools in the future.Additional assistance was provided to each colleague depending on their needs. Theseneeds were assessed through dialogue, as well as subsequent journal entries completed by thecoachees throughout the peer coaching process. For example, Colleague One expressed a needfor help in finding images to use in an Animoto video. While the need for these resources wasmet, further assistance was provided in teaching her how to find useful images for projects,