What is Coaching?
"Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them" Tim Gallwey (The Inner Game series)'Learning to be a coach or mentor is one of the most effective ways of enabling teachers or leaders to become good and excellent practitioners.' CUREE, 2005, p7
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Benefits of Coaching for Teachers and Support Staff
More and more businesses and schools are recognising the critical role coaching can play in navigating them through organisational changes, supporting individual and team development and enhancing productivity and overall effectiveness.We can:
- help struggling teachers to become effective & motivated
- help teachers to improve their work/life balance
- coach teachers or other staff in senior positions to improve their time management so that they can get more important things done rather than just the urgent ones
- help teachers to implement systems that improve their performance in the classroom
- help transform a teacher's life from being an unmotivated person just muddling through in quiet desperation' to being confident and in control of their role
- give a jaded teacher a new sense of direction, hope and optimism
Are you aware of the Department for Education and Skills pilot schemes for coaching? The researchers reported that coaching and mentoring:
- Refocuses teachers
- Motivates and provides an effective mechanism for sustainable professional development
- Promotes reflection and self directed professional learning
- Pushes the boundaries and generates new knowledge
- Benefits pupils, as effective teachers become good teachers and good teachers become excellent teachers
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