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Coaching, introduced as this programme suggests, will impact on results and wellbeing. It will help everyone who works at your school feel a sense of belonging and being valued. It’s not a quick fix, it’s a way of becoming the very best that you can be – for yourself, and for the whole school community.
An understanding of how and why coaching can work as a powerful lever for change and growth.
The skills of coaching for your own professional and personal development.
A huge range of resources and training materials to use to develop a coaching culture in your school.
Coaching for staff
Latest research shows that coaching is a powerful tool for school improvement.
‘Our findings demonstrate that effective teacher coaching does lead to conditions that underpin school improvement. Specifically, the positive effect was most evident when there was alignment between the coaching approach and the tenets of collaborative professionalism.’
Coaching for students
In New Zealand several programmes in student coaching students have found:
‘Benefits include improved overall confidence in interacting with their peers, improved listening skills, improvements in their ability to empathise and support their peers when working towards thei goals’
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Many schools are struggling with staffing challenges, an uncertain future and more special needs children than ever.
This Programme will build psychological capital such as optimism, self-efficacy and resilience across your community by building reflective skills for ALL. It will also show you how coaching creates personalised CPD that works to implement school improvement strategies and it will most definitely students work together to develop self-regulation and metacognition.
There are 6 sections in this programme to follow or dip into:
School leaders at all levels will benefit both from coaching and being coached. They will develop their leadership skills, having coaching conversations that grow their emotional intelligence and ability to respond to challenges in their teams. This section shows how coaching can influence your school culture and lead to initiatives being owned by all the staff and therefore implemented more effectively, giving leaders more time to lead.
This section provides all the videos, slides and resources to train your staff in coaching. It gives them practical experience of how a 7-minute coaching conversation can begin to address challenging problems and encourage staff to come up with their own solutions to them and set targets for incremental improvement. This could start with a training session for everyone so that staff know what coaching is (and isn’t!) and why you are aiming to become a Coaching School. Next, a group of enthusiasts can become pilot coaches, leading the way by taking further training offered in the next section of this programme. These staff (and they may be teachers, leaders, admin staff or Teaching Assistants) can lead the way by coaching each other for half a term, before rolling out the coaching to others who would like a coach. They can set up a Forum too so that the project is monitored and evaluated for impact over time.
Once your staff have seen the power of a coaching conversation, where ownership of change is given to the coachee, ALL conversations between staff and students will begin to change. Coaching creates self-efficacy, encouraging the coachee to feel more in control of their thinking and their responses. This in turn creates the habit of self-regulation in the coachee (and influences the coach too, as they improve their listening and questioning skills). In their classrooms, teachers will start asking more coaching questions. In one-to-one conversations with students, teachers and TAs will encourage more independent thinking and resilience in their students.
The section on students coaching each other has many resources and ideas that can be used to train students to become effective coaches of others outside of their age or friendship groups. There are exemplar checklists for supervision, information for parents and tips on safeguarding when you introduce students coaching each other. Your pilot group of coaches would be ideal candidates to train the students and later, as your school develops experienced student coaches, you can help students train each other in the skills of coaching.
This section on Instructional Coaching may be all you need to help your teachers refine and improve their skills on an individual basis. IC is coaching specific to observing the coachee’s classroom habits, giving the coachee a chance to find out what is working and how to be even more effective. It takes small targets, ideally set by the coachee, and improves practice by trialling them and getting constructive feedback. IC works best when a school already has a strong culture of allies so all involved can be open to feedback and growth.
This section can be dipped into at any point. It explains why coaching works and how our limiting beliefs and unhelpful thinking habits can get in the way of good relationships and improving our performance. Some people will find coaching more challenging, and this section will help everyone understand how to nurture and develop the hope and optimism which characterises an improving school. This section will help your whole school community see every challenge as a gift and opportunity.
Award Criteria
(Note: All of the methods can be included in the Coach Mentor final assessment report.)
Here are all the courses that are included:
This section helps school leaders enhance their leadership skills and emotional intelligence through coaching, fostering a culture where staff take ownership of initiatives for better results.
This section offers resources to train staff in coaching, using 7-minute conversations to address challenges. A pilot group leads the way, helping others set goals and improve through coaching.
This section empowers staff and students by fostering self-efficacy and independent thinking. It transforms conversations, leading to better listening, questioning, and self-regulation in classrooms and one-on-one interactions.
This section provides resources for training students to coach peers outside their usual groups, with checklists, parent information, and safeguarding tips. Experienced coaches can guide students in developing coaching skills.
This section on Instructional Coaching helps teachers refine their skills through observation and feedback, setting small targets to improve classroom practices. It thrives in a supportive school culture open to growth and feedback.
This section explains why coaching works by addressing limiting beliefs and unhelpful thinking. It helps nurture hope and optimism, encouraging the school community to see challenges as opportunities for growth.
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