Collaborative Peer Coaching That Improves Instruction

Based on frequent mutual feedback from peers students and administrators the 2+2 method is deceptively simple in concept but has shown tremendous potential in the schools where it has been implemented. Using the 2+2 performance appraisal method teachers regularly visit each others'' classrooms during instructional time for as long as it takes to write two compliments and two suggestions for improvement. In a time where teachers have become increasingly isolated this strategy increases meaningful contact and collaboration and allows for administrator participation in a less threatening context than the traditional performance appraisal greatly reducing teachers'' levels of anxiety and self-doubt which in turn leads to increased job-satisfaction.