The Importance Of Peer Coaching

Peer coaching is a technique that fosters reflective practices in the ELT classroom, which enhances teacher’s professional development. This exercise becomes successful if both the coachee and the couch, observe and conduct a thorough reflection in order to provide a constructive feedback to each other. In other words, the coaching relationship needs to be reciprocal. Notwithstanding, it is recommended for both peers to be nearly at the same level of knowledge, skill and experience. There also needs to be a sense of trust, humbleness; to accept the aspects to improve, and confidentiality in order for the constructive feedback to be effective.

Given that my peer and I differ in experience, as a couch, it was necessary to gain his trust and

I was able to compare our practices and self-reflect on what I needed to restructure in my end; which was marvelous. Consequently, I noted down the most predominate aspects to adjust in order to direct his practices through a more enriching path for both his students and himself. Therefore, my observation resulted in proving suggestions for a possible classroom management plan where he can ask instruction checking questions to ensure his students’ understanding, where he can control their participation, as well as to call their attention in times of

I also designed a participation and an attention getter plan. Additionally, his recommendations served me to not only self-reflect on his concern but also to analyze my practice as a whole. That made me realize that I was losing a lot of time providing one to one feedback to my students, and handing and collection homework. Therefore, I restructured my lessons where feedback will be provided while an activity takes place, the homework will be put right on my desk so I do not have to go around collecting it and three students will hand it