Final Assignment

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Collaborative Coaching for Educational Supervisors

in the Dominican Republic

EXPLORE - Week 10

In week 10 we are asking you to explore your own learning over the entire course as a way to prepare yourself to write the final assignment. We would like you to slow down, and pay attention to your experiences on the course and to "quest" through your own learning. We want you to explore and gather your ideas, questions and learning and we want you to be an artist in putting those learnings together in meaningful ways. The first set of tasks are optional and the second set are mandatory.

In our online zoom sessions on May 13, 14 and 15 we’ll be asking you to share some of your reflections with us.

Optional Tasks

Sit and reflect on the work you have done and witnessed (in the zoom meetings, in your reflections, in the readings and videos, in your journals, and in the WhatsApp groups). Go back through the webpages for this course and review the material. Make a list of the ideas, themes, and questions that stand out for you.
Read/listen through your journals and assignments and highlight or underline what jumps out at you. What is most remarkable/interesting/useful about your learning?
Think about your learning on this course as you do a creative project - write a poem, make a drawing, put on music and move, freewrite, or anything else you do that feels creative.
Call a colleague, friend or family member and tell them about your learning on this course. What stories do you tell? What is meaningful about those stories?
Go to this Padlet (https://padlet.com/maryss/3j4d4kkc87xzzcbk) and click on the small pink circle at the bottom of the right side of the page. A box will appear and there you can create a post. You can write, upload photos, videos or even draw somethings. Create 1-3 entries about your learning. After you post, please comment or respond to others' posts! You can also return later in the week to see what others have offered.
Create a few metaphor or similes that help you understand your experiences learning on this course. Share them with a classmate.
Make up a task that would help you explore your own learning.

Mandatory Tasks

Re-read your pre-course assignment. How have you grown or changed? What answers for you have changed? Shifted? Stayed the same?
The goal of this course is the following: As an outcome of this course supervisors will be able to set a foundation for and co-create a coaching relationship grounded in effective communication practices that support teacher development and student learning. Think or write about the following questions: How well did I reach the goal of the course? How do I know this? What evidence do I have that I can do these things? What else might I need or want to do to know that I have reached this goal?
Go to the reflection form (link will be sent to your Whatapp group) this week and fill out your answers.
In your whatsapp group share 2-3 insights about your own learning from this course that are meaningful to you and explain why they are important to you.
Come to your zoom meeting ready to reflect together about your learning on this course.

FINAL LEARNING STATEMENT INSTRUCTIONS

(Due May 22nd in week 11)

THANK YOU for your hard work over these past few months. It has been an honor and a joy to work with you and to witness your coaching and your learning. It has been amazing to see how you have worked together as a community of learners, even from a distance, even though COVID-19 and we are touched to hear your stories of your own and your teachers/colleagues/friends’ / family member’s learning. We are all inspired and grateful.

CONTENT: For this final learning statement we would like you to step outside the traditional form of an academic paper and use your creativity to complete a project that communicates your learning. The project you create should include both text and images (still or video). You should use these to describe and illustrate your most meaningful learnings. You will be guided by the requirement that your project answers 8 to 10 of the questions offered below. In addition, give your project a title that captures the essence of your learnings. Include this title at the beginning of your creation. Make sure to include your full name and where you are from!

NOTE: These are guiding questions to help you organize your thoughts and the information in your skills and coaching journal to share your experience.

Mandatory Questions that you must answer in your project:

What have I learned, taking into consideration awareness, skills, knowledge, and stance, about presence, listening, empathy, questing, planning?
Which 4-5 ideas from the readings and videos were most important to me in this course? Why? How did they come to life in my own experiences as a coach?
What is the story of one of the coaching conversations (or a conversation in which you used your coaching skills) that I either led, participated in or witnessed that impacted me? What is the impact?
What have I learned about coaching teachers and supervisors?
What are 3-5 future plans I have as a coach?
How well did I reach the goal of the course? (GOAL: As an outcome of this course supervisors will be able to set a foundation for and co-create a coaching relationship grounded in effective communication practices that support teacher development and student learning. ). How do I know this?

Optional Questions to choose from (choose at least 3 – or more)

What are 2-3 important realizations I had during this course? Why are they important?
What is an idea or concept that I struggled with during the course? What is the story of that struggle? Where am I now in this struggle?
Who is a teacher or supervisor that has impacted me through this experience? How? Why?
What are my strengths and challenges in coaching?
How do I think my participants experienced my coaching? How do I know this? (please offer concrete examples)
What are the 2-3 things I want to do/remember next time I coach teachers?
What 2-3 ideas, comments or concepts are most meaningful to me about the interactions with peers in the zoom meetings? Why?
What was a useful challenge or problem that I had in coaching and how did I work with it or overcome it?
How would you suggest someone prepare themselves who wants to become a coach for public school teachers?
What is something specific and meaningful that I learned from other participants on this course? Why is this important to me?
What else have I learned on this course that I would like to share?

FORMAT: The final learning statement can be in the form of a PDF, a Word Document, a PowerPoint Presentation, a video, a website or made in some other way that you clearly express yourself and fully answer the questions required.

You can be as creative as you want in relation to how to present the content in your final assignment, as long as the questions are clearly answered. Make sure to organize and present content in a clear and effective way using both images/photos AND text. Video is optional.

Samples of final assignments in written format: SAMPLE ONE, SAMPLE TWO, SAMPLE THREE

Samples of final assignments in video format:

final project.avi

DEADLINE and Where to TURN IT IN:

Please name your document with the following pattern:

Lastname_Name_[Group] Example: Silvestre_Luis_Sat10am

Submit your final learning project

We would like you to submit your final project in 2 ways so that we are doubly sure that it will be turned in. Sometimes people have challenges with email and sometimes people have challenges uploading so we would like to be able to receive it in both places so that we are extra sure it gets to us.

1. Please email it to your facilitators by May 22nd

AND

2. Upload it to the appropriate folder for your group's folder.

Click on the link below to find the folder.

(If you can't open the folder please send an email to Mary at admin@espiralmana.org.)

RUBRIC

As you develop your final project, consider the “Pass” column in the rubric below. This is how trainers will check your Final Project has all the requirements:

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