quality coaching coaches’ professional learning program melbourne, vic, australia june 10, 2009
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Quality Coaching
Coaches’ Professional Learning Program
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
June 10, 2009
Goals
Participants will: Define quality coaching Understand conditions that optimize quality
coaching Have strategies that promote quality
coaching
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Recognizing Quality Coaching What does quality coaching look like? Sound
like?
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Conditions for Optimal CoachingCoaching: Fresh alternative Partnership Outcomes: teacher learning and collaboration Job-embedded professional learning Enhances teacher capacity For informed decision making Rooted in coaching conversations
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Conditions for Optimal Coaching (continued)School, leadership, staff: Commitment to building capacity Recognition that all learn all the time Treat all with respect and dignity Openness to differences Understand purpose and process of coaching
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On a Piece of Paper
Write one word … whatever word you choose.
We’ll come back to this later.
A Framework
Ralph Stacy
ALIA Institute
Human Systems Dynamics Insitute
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Now …
Write the word “coaching.
Form a speedy group – read aloud
One Create Space
Everyone does the same thing.
One person (with power) can decide what is to be done.
Pros:
Cons:
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Now…
Read the word you wrote at the start in your speedy group.
Not much pattern, eh? Interesting? Meaningful?
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No Create Space
No agreement.
Everyone can do their own thing.
Pros:
Cons:
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No Create Space
Everyone does their own thing.
No plan, no direction.
Pros:
Cons:
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Now…
Finish this sentence with four words:
I come from …
Make “from” your first word.
Share with your speedy group.
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Co-Create Space
Shared input.
Shared power to decide.
Response to shared interests.
Pros:
Cons:
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The Potential of Educational Coaching Lies in “co-create” space
Coach listens and learns Mutual problem solving All are experts and all are learners
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Tasks for the Coach
Guide the coaching conversation Facilitate processes “Meaningfully disturb”
Consider experiences Seek diversity Create possibility Cross boundaries
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The Coaching Conversation Starting Out Focusing Gathering Information Problem Solving Planning Forwarding the Action Scheduling Note Taking
Facilitate Processes
Agenda setting Conversation facilitation
Questioning Creating hospitality for each member’s level of
contribution
Planning Data Analysis
Best when embedded in meaningful conversation
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Help Teacher Partners Consider Experiences Recognize tension between experience
and “what they say” Honor experience Remain open to “what they say” And then…
Living with the tension Learning from the tension
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Create Diversity: Neighbor Ideas Generating Sharing And then …
Reconciling Living with contradiction Shifting perspective Finding “third space”
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Create Possibility
New lenses Ask questions Shift perspectives
New visions Site visits Videos Books/articles Conversations across
grades/departments/schools
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Cross Boundaries
Share ideas Nudge perspectives Provide resources
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Making It Work
Be explicit about your role Ask for administrator support – repeatedly Be clear in your own mind Expect the best in people Be realistic When in doubt … listen and learn Remember to breathe!
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You must be the change you want to
see in the world.Mahatma Gandhi
