What is coaching?
“Coaching is a collaborative, solution-focused results-oriented and systematic process in which the coach facilitates the enhancement of work performance, life experience, self-directed learning and personal growth of the coachee” (Association for Coaching, 2015)
There are different applications of coaching in education. This programme focuses on coaching to enhance professional practice: To support performance, development and wellbeing.
Coaching is collaborative, supports individual autonomy, facilitative, future-focused and non-judgemental.
What are the benefits of group coaching?
Sharing of knowledge, experience and practice
Working towards common goals
Develop of support and trust within a group
Increased commitment and accountability
Enhanced capacity to develop and improve the system, services and processes
Fostering a culture of learning and growth mindset
What is discussed in coaching?
Psychological
CONFIDENCE
MOTIVATION
RESILIENCE
BELIEFS
EMOTIONS
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
Practical
GOALS
SKILLS
PROBLEM-SOLVING
DECISION-MAKING
ACTION-PLANNING
SUPPORT NETWORKS
What can you expect from a coaching session?
The aim of this programme is for SENCos is to develop their holistic assessment skills.
Coaching sessions provide support to enhance your performance as well as your coping, resilience and wellbeing. Coaching sessions will help develop your practice to achieve specific goals and you will be invited to write your own action plans at the end of sessions.
Coaching sessions will help you to:
Understand the problem situation
Examine systemic aspects
Develop critical understanding
Consider underlying personal dimensions
Create an action plan
Evaluate outcomes and processes
Responsibilities of the coach
To establish a safe enough environment to explore practice issues
To help explore and clarify thinking and feeling underlying practice
To give clear feedback
To share information, experience and skills appropriately
To challenge practice that is considered unethical or incompetent
To confront personal and professional blocks
Responsibilities as coachee
To identify practice issues which need exploring
To become increasingly able to share these issues freely
To identify and communicate the kind of interventions that are useful
To be open to feedback
To notice the need to justify, explain or defend before listening to feedback
