Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud

Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud has moved to PLS3rdLearning.com!

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 05 May 2013 02:00:00 PDT

Hello friends, I wanted to let you know that, as of today, Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud can be found in it’s new home – PLS3rdLearning.com/blog. Please click on the link below to read this...

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DEFINING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:00:05 PDT

Many of the readers of this blog who have worked with me in trainings for instructional coaching, designing professional development, or facilitating professional learning communities are aware that...

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GIVING FEEDBACK

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 02:00:03 PDT

On the March 18th Time Ideas blog, I found an interesting article by Annie Murphy Paul titled, Four Ways to Give Good Feedback. Paul poses that how we offer feedback can really make a difference....

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EDUCATING ENTREPRENEURS

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:59:03 PDT

While presenting at the ECIS Leadership conference in Berlin, I was fortunate to attend a keynote presentation by Yong Zhao, an international scholar, author, and speaker with a...

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LEARNING IN COMMUNITIES

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:21:57 PDT

I was invited to observe in the video production class of Pat Phillips, an instructor at the Career and Technical Education School in Bismarck, North Dakota. During a pre-conference and...

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HOW URGENT IS THE CHANGE?

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 02:00:07 PDT

I spent the last week with administrators, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders from Bismarck Schools in North Dakota. I’ve been working with these educators during the last two years as...

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CHANGING ROLE FOR TEACHERS: MODELED BY COACHES

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 02:00:07 PDT

In the March 2013 Educational Leadership,Will Richardson asked the question,”What do we mean by learning?” (Students First, Not Stuff page 10). Richardson quotes Seymour Sarason (2004 And...

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DEVELOPING INTRINSIC MOTIVATION

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 09:45:23 PDT

In my use of backwards planning to gain student motivation, I am continually asking teachers to identify what student behaviors are needed to reach the student achievement that has been set as a...

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GAINING TEACHING OPTIONS

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 05:02:04 PDT

My first travels in South America had me spend two days exploring peer coaching with the staff of The British Schools in Montevideo, Uruguay. It’s fall there and they are preparing for...

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BUILDING OBSERVATION AND CONFERENCING SKILLS

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:00:03 PST

I have had several opportunities in the last month to spend time with coaches and principals doing group observations in teachers classrooms followed by group discussion of individual’s analysis of...

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HIGH YIELD STRATEGIES-EMPOWER LEARNERS

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:16:47 PST

I had the chance to return to Leander, Texas to be part of their 20th year Continuous Improvement Conference. I was there last year and I wrote about their focus on seven student learning...

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PLCs AND COACHING

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:00:06 PST

Working with the staffs at Jollyville Elementary and Live Oak Elementaryin Round Rock, Texas, we explored the work of PLCs and how peer coaching might positively impact teacher and student...

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DESIGNING FOR LEARNING

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:00:01 PST

All of you who have been in my training sessions or coaching practices know the increase focus I have personally developed on “student behaviors”. I believe that the real challenge in teaching...

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TEACHING COLLABORATIVE SKILLS

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 02:00:05 PST

In my classroom observations I frequently find students working in groups but not practicing or developing cooperative skills. I often find students unclear as to why the teacher assigned the group...

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LOOKING AT LEARNING

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:00:04 PST

I’ve been searching and gathering thoughts and examples that explore what learning could and should look like. In Tapping Student Effort, and in many of my presentations, I present William Glasser’s...

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FROM VISION STATEMENT TO ACTION

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 02:00:07 PST

In an earlier blogI described the New Jersey Education Association’s (NJEA) Priority Schools program, which is placing retired teachers as coaches/facilitators in some schools. This week I spent a...

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INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING HIGHLIGHTS

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:32:28 PST

I just finished a great day of learning with coaches and administrators from Ankeny, Iowa and surrounding school districts. The participants were tweeting at #iacoaches2013. I found it interesting...

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TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION FOR LEARNING

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:00:08 PST

I had some free time during the holidays to work ahead in prepping for upcoming sessions that I’ll be facilitating in the new year. I’d been tagging and saving articles (read when you have time) in...

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TEAMWORK IN PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 02:00:00 PST

In the Fall 2012 (Vol 8, No1) issue of Learningforward’s The Learning Principal, Bradley A. Ermeling proposes five principles for reviving problematic groups. I see all five principles applying...

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HOW COACHABLE ARE YOU?

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:28:39 PST

This was the title of a blog I found written by Steve Keating, Selling Skills Manager with Toro Company. In keeping with my experience, if I spend 10 minutes on Twitter I’ll learn something new...

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LEARNING COMPANIONS

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:11:08 PST

Learning Companion is the phrase my Turkish colleague, Kayhan Karli, uses to describe peer coaching. Kayhan is the Director General of ÖĞRETMEN AKADEMİSİ VAKFI, a foundation that has now provided...

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INQUIRY IN COACHING

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:00:03 PST

I recently had the chance to attend a workshop for parents at an international school implementing the PYP (Primary Years Program) from the International Baccalaureate Organization. In the...

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WHICH MODEL OF COACHING?

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:31:43 PST

This past week I was asked this question in two different settings. A possible future client was interviewing me on a phone call to explore “the fit” for me to be a trainer/coach for administrators...

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CHARACTER POINT AVERAGE

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:00:00 PST

Should students know their CPA as well as their GPA?I’ve just finished reading How Children Succeedby Paul Tough, where he poses:“If you were a college-admissions director or a corporate human...

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PLCs WORKING ON STUDENT MOTIVATION

noreply@blogger.com (Stephen G. Barkley) — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 02:00:07 PST

I was recently asked to facilitate a high school staff who had been working in PLC’s that were department centered around curriculum and assessment. I was given a request to create an opportunity for...

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