Literacy Coaching
This post is part of a larger series based on the book Coaching Approaches & Perspectives edited by Jim Knight. Visit the Coaching category for other related posts. I’d initially… Read more »
Category: Coaching
Leadership Coaching: Facilitating and Supporting Change
Coaches can help their clients in self-discovery to make sure that energy drains are overcome for a healthy and successful life. Coaches help each client consider their whole life, both… Read more »
Leadership Coaching: Role and Actions
Many people who have not experienced coaching have little understanding of the process and believe that coaching is only useful for fixing people. However coaching is useful for refining skills and gaining new skills that… Read more »
Leadership Coaching
In Chapter 8: Leadership Coaching, Karla Reiss discusses the value of coaching as embodying the best components of professional development. She presents the view that coaching is personalised to the… Read more »
Differentiated Coaching: The Coaching Plan
The final step in differentiated coaching is to create a coaching plan. An information gathering sheet can be completed in any order to record the coaching styles and strategies that the… Read more »
Differentiated Coaching: Identifying the Problem
After steps one and two, it’s time to identify the problem that the teacher wants to solve. Kise cautions that the coach may need to help the teacher identify the… Read more »
Differentiated Coaching: Identifying Teacher Beliefs
The second step in differentiated coaching, after hypothesizing personality type, is identifying teacher beliefs. Kise gives evidence in this section that teachers do not examine practices that align with their… Read more »
Differentiated Coaching: Hypothesizing Personality Type
Mayers-Briggs Type Indicator determines a person’s personality type along four axes. Introversion versus Extroversion: Introverts get energy from time alone while extroverts get energy from other people. Sensing versus Intuition:… Read more »
Differentiated Coaching
Chapter 7 by Jane A. G. Kise is called Differentiated Coaching, and looks at how to use personality types to determine the coaching approach to use with a teacher. This… Read more »
Content Coaching: Preconference, Lesson Enactment and Postconference
The authors present content coaching as an inquiry undertaken jointly by the teacher and the coach. One of the steps is the preconference which clarifies what the goals of the… Read more »