Monday, September 15, 2008

NESS Fast Starts

Welcome back, NESS School Liaisons, I hope everyone had a wonderful summer. As the new school year begins, the following are seven suggestions from Veteran NESS School Liaisons for supporting New Educators and Instructional Coaches at your site.
  1. Initiate your NESS Learning Community for inservice Points before you start meeting. You can no longer post date events/courses.  For more information contact your HRD Program Facilitator.
  2. Ask your Instructional Coaches for suggestions on how they can follow-up on your site-based orientation for new educators.
  3. Designate part of your Instructional Coach Study Group to the coaches who attended this summer’s Coach Professional Development (CPD) training or the Clinical Educator Training and invite them to facilitate some of the activities from that training.
  4. Brainstorm the qualities of a highly effective teacher in your first learning community and use this list to focus the New Educator’s Professional Growth.
  5. Invite your HRD Program Facilitators to help plan Instructional Coach and NESS Learning Communities or any other induction process.
  6. Record and organize your site-based NESS actions and protocols for future use and for preparing your replacement.
  7. If you need additional information or assistance contact your HRD Program Facilitator.
Source: NESS Liaisons

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