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Intro to Peer Coaching

Join forces with a peer for coaching on writing skills, following a script but aiming for a conversational approach. Learn from each other, just like sports coaches assist players. Embrace the role of a peer coach by asking questions, offering feedback, and supporting the writer in finding solutions. Peer coaching focuses on revision for improvement, emphasizing the big picture rather than minor details like grammar. Both writers and coaches benefit from this collaborative process, enhancing communication skills and learning from each other. Embrace the opportunity, watch a peer coaching video, identify strengths, and weaknesses with your partner, and embark on the peer coaching journey with an open mind.

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Intro to Peer Coaching

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  1. Intro to Peer Coaching

  2. What is peer coaching? • Team up with a partner and talk about your writing. • Each of you takes a turn being the writer and the coach • Based off of a script, but try for a conversation • Same process used at UWM

  3. COACHES In sports, coaches instruct players and direct team strategy. They do not do the work for the team, but rather they stand on the side observing, looking at what is going well and what needs improvement. (Ryan & Zimmerelli, 2010)

  4. What do peer coaches do? • Peer coaches stand on the sidelines, too. The work of the writer needs to be her own. By: • asking questions, • making comments, • and functioning as a reader, you encourage the writer to think through problems and to find their own answers. (Ryan & Zimmerelli 2010)

  5. Revision • Coaching is about revision. • Big picture • Not grammar, spelling • You are not taking someone else’s paper and correcting it or rewriting it. • You help the writer to rewrite it themselves by becoming that voice inside their head.

  6. Why do peer coaching? • Writer • Improve your writing • Identify what you do well • Fix problems you know you have • Identify and fix problems you didn’t know you had • Improve your ability to communicate

  7. Why do peer coaching? • Coach • Improve your ability to communicate • Identify strengths and weaknesses in other people’s writing • Apply what you learned to your own writing • Learn about other people

  8. Are you nervous? • New things can cause anxiety • Keep an open mind

  9. Plan for today: • Look at the peer coaching directions (or script) • Watch a video of a peer coaching session http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6KxarSX44A • Identify strengths/weaknesses in your own paragraph • Team up with a partner • Start peer coaching 

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