Coaching Journal

K Bowers
 Journal to do list:
Choose a teacher-have a conversation, discuss purpose,
schedule, student population and target class for lesson
Discuss purpose of videotaping and teachers comfort
level Inform teacher that she will receive video to view
before our next meeting (using forwarded screenshots of

Journal Entry 1 Knights pps 35-37 to assist her as she watches the
video).
Review upcoming assignment before taping
Prepare Brainstorm while viewing lesson on tech platforms and
ideas to add to the lesson and take notes
Allow teacher to do most of the talking and paraphrase
and clarify/Listen, listen, listen)
Plan to use LOTi framework-district wide
 Discuss Current Reality Results

Journal Entry 2 Asked the Identify questions from Knight’s

“Impact Cycle” pg 84
Teacher set a goal for tech: Flipgrid and Prezi.
The free version of Prezi wouldn’t work
(changing ppt to Prezi)-settled on PPT and
teacher requested excel spreadsheet to
calculate costs and I created a file
Identify Video
Challenges-students sped, teacher sched, tech
issues w rockdale county permissions, pace
As a coach LOTI will be used.sharing w
district
 Teacher and I mentioned color coding the

Journal Entry 3
spreadsheet to help students visually and adding
additional open lines to make additions. One
spreadsheet will now be two.
Spoke about tentatively using flipgrid depending
on student comfort level.
Set a time for one to one teacher instruction on the
spreadsheet and flipgrid and then with students.
Learn video Challenge -student had a schedule change due to
senior responsibilities. Teacher won’t be able to
turn key in time-sent teacher a flipgrid recording
for her to view and a tutorial video. We can revisit
flipgrid at another date.
 Met w teacher to review goals and
strategies used. Discussed ways to
tweak lesson and add features to
Journal Entry 4 upcoming presentation assignment.
Decided to use planning form and to
meet B day during planning
No real roadblocks more like making
Improve video
assignments accessible to medical
homebound and we have decided to do
more videos that students can watch as
much as needed for direction.