Peer Coaching

Using peer coaching...

Implementation

Overview

Peers are tremendous resources within a classroom for both modeling and supporting others.
Peer coaching is initiated through a class meeting or discussion.
The goal of peer coaching is to hold partners accountable for their goals they create.
An accountability partner is a way of ensuring a student continues to work towards their goals.
Students create behavioral, social, or academic goals for themselves with their partners and sign a contract with eachother.
Check ins are designed where students meet with each other to discuss their progress and how they can support one another.

Core Components

- Students are taught how to coach each other in an asset-based way
- Time is carved out for coaching opportunities to occur
- Goals are set and monitored
- Feedback is given

Proactive Implementation

- Proactively implementing Peer Coaching may start with creating opportunities for students to interact and provide feedback to each other. Students need to practice these interactions.

Responsive Implementation

- Responsively implementing Peer Coaching may stem from a need to leverage peer relationships, elevate responsibility, or improve interpersonal interactions. Take should be taken to practice the norms and expectations of the interactions.

Connection

If the need is connection then the peer coaching should come from a preferred peer and positive prosocial influence.

Skills Training

If the need is skill building then the student should be coached on a specific target skill.

Awareness

If the need is awareness then the student should be coached on perspectives and receive feedback on what others may have been feeling.

Emotional Regulation

If the need is regulation then the stu

Consider Factors Prior to Start

Gender, race, function, topography, family dynamics, interpersonal relationships

Resource availability, classroom instruction, physical space, time, technology

Intensifying or Fading During

REMINDER

- Make a note to document when you're starting this intervention.
- After 10 consecutive school days of implementation, use collected data to determine the intervention's effectiveness.

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