They played a key role in the statewide Peer Review, facilitating the process and supporting and encouraging teachers as they shared their work in this new format. The consultants coached teachers by helping them complete the form for describing their learning experiences, reflect on their work, make connections with the learning standards, and recognize the value of the standards documents in the lesson development. It was the consultants' intimate acquaintance with the specific standards and performance indicators that was essential to the writing process. Much of the success in securing the quantity and quality of learning experiences was due to the coaching role of the consultants. Coaching models good classroom practice.
Teachers benefit from close personal mentoring in the same way that students do.
Coaching is an integral part of the process in helping teachers prepare their learning experiences.