The Office of Bilingual Education continues to provide English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers with Peer Coaching sessions that focus on helping teachers implement rigorous strategies and approaches shared during WestEd development sessions. This will help improve teacher performance and English Learner achievement.
Through the Peer Coaching initiative, teachers have improved their practice. These intentional planning techniques can be conceptualized in three moments: first, preparing learners for the learning embodied in the lesson text; second, scaffolding students' interaction with the text; and third, extending their understanding of the ideas in the text. Students learn best when engaging with their peers as this helps bridge what they can do independently and expand their knowledge of concepts, language, and cognition.
