What in your professional and personal experiences validate the need for more effective technology-enabled approaches to professional development?Professionally, what experiences validate the need for undertaking professional development that is enhanced by technology and carried out on a continuum consisting of four connected, coordinated components—study, observation, one-on-one coaching, and group coaching?Do your professional experiences support or refute the evidence offered regarding effective and ineffective professional development? If so, how? If not, why?

What professional development experiences have you had involving groups or peers? In what ways do your experiences support the need for technology-enabled group or peer coaching? What happens when educators skip this component on the eCoaching continuum because of lack of time, effort, support, or resources?

What professional experiences have you had using technology to monitor and assess professional learning? How do these experiences, as well as the rationale provided in the chapter, validate the need to use technology to assess results and demonstrate positive impact when evaluating professional learning?

Chapter 3. Technology-Enabled One-on-One, In-Ear Coaching: Framing Professional Development in Real-Time InstructionWhat professional experiences have you had with coaching? What about your professional experiences and the information included in the chapter support the need for technology- enabled coaching?What specific steps and actions will you and your colleagues take to ensure technology- enabled coaching aligns with what was selected for technology-enabled study and observation? Why does this matter? In other words, what happens when educators jump into coaching of a specific practice or theory without undertaking study and observation of it?What characteristics does an effective eCoach demonstrate when carrying out one-on-one, real-time coaching? How will you and your colleagues support the eCoach or eCoaches in developing and demonstrating these characteristics—initially and over time?How will you and your colleagues intentionally carry out the before-during-after framework when carrying out technology-enabled, one-on-one coaching, during real-time classroom instruction? Specifically:What technologies will you and your colleagues use to carry out technology-enabled, one-on- one, real-time coaching? What benefits and drawbacks have you considered to ensure a good fit? What specific technology supports will be available to whom and when?Which feedback formats and principles will you use, during each phase of the before-during-after framework to ensure technology-enabled, one-on- one, real-time coaching is meaningful and beneficial?During technology-enabled, one-on-one, real-time coaching, which templates and protocols will you use to collect, analyze, and interpret teacher and K–12 student performance data? How will you  use these data to gain deeper understanding and greater insight into teaching and learning at the district, school, classroom, or individual student levels?After reading chapters 1, 2, and 3, with your team members (e.g., grade level, discipline specific) or individually, add to the instructional design plan that you used to create a blueprint for technology-enabled study of a specific content or pedagogy—including social, emotional, and behavioral domains (see Figure 1.6)—and technology-enabled observation of it (see Figure 2.6) to include technology-enabled, one-on-one, real-time coaching.How will you and your colleagues assess and evaluate the eCoach(es)? What instrument(s) or approaches will you and your colleagues use to limit bias? What steps and actions will you and your colleagues take to use the assessment and evaluation data to bolster the success of the eCoach(es)?What specific actions and steps will you and your colleagues take to cultivate a culture that maximizes the positive effects of feedback provided and received through technology- enabled, real-time, one-on-one coaching?

You have read the professional book, The eCoaching Continuum: Using Technology to Enrich Professional Development and Improve Student Outcomes by Marcia Rock. This book was selected because of its relevance in terms of helping educators to understand the coaching continuum that aid practicing educators as they engage in using technology to enrich professional development with the intentional goal of improving student outcomes.  Please address the following prompts:The chapters included the eCoach's roles and responsibilities as well as recommended professional development approaches for the eCoach, which are also carried out using technology-enabled coaching on a continuum. After reading the chapters, what actions and steps will your teachers, administrators, and other education professionals take to ensure the eCoach(es) have the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and time needed to carry out important roles and responsibilities?After reading the chapters, compare and contrast your existing approaches to professional development with the one described throughout the book. Based on that analysis, describe the changes you and your colleagues need to make to carry out the four connected, coordinated components included in the eCoaching continuum—studying, observing, one- on-one real-time coaching, and group coaching—and specific content or pedagogy, including social, emotional, and behavioral domains. When describing necessary changes, be sure to include the following:Priority areas for changeSpecific steps and actions for achieving changeResources (e.g., technology, time, budget, expertise, support) needed for achieving changeTime frames and targets for achieving changeIndividuals responsible for actions and stepsCriteria for success

What specific steps and actions will you and your colleagues take to ensure technology- enabled coaching aligns with what was selected for technology-enabled study and observation? Why does this matter? In other words, what happens when educators jump into coaching of a specific practice or theory without undertaking study and observation of it?What characteristics does an effective eCoach demonstrate when carrying out one-on-one, real-time coaching? How will you and your colleagues support the eCoach or eCoaches in developing and demonstrating these characteristics—initially and over time?