Peer Coaching Bibliography

"Peer Coaching is a confidential process through which two or more professional colleagues work together to review current practices; expand, refine, and build new skills; share ideas; teach one another; conduct classroom research; and solve problems in the workplace." -

from Slater, C.L. and Simmons, D.L., "The Design and Implementation of a Peer Coaching Program." American Secondary Education, v. 29, n. 3, [Spring 2001],67 - 76.

Click here for a peer coaching bibliography; a few of the references at the end of the list are online.

Welcome to Reference & Instruction Exchange Roundtable

This is a cooperative effort to start a dialogue about Reference and Instruction in NC Community Colleges. What are you doing now, what are your instructional and reference success stories, and what are your ideas on improving instruction and reference services with the CC student population? Comments are enabled on this blog, but please stay close to the topics listed in the mission statement at the top of the screen.

We would also like to start a conversation about peer evaluation; you may also see references to this concept under "peer coaching" in the professional literature. We are interested in this concept with the emphasis on "peer", with librarian's working to improve each other as professionals, not as a part of an employee's evaluation.