Coaching Session Number One

Last week I had my first coaching session with the first teacher that I am coaching.  I was a little nervous as it was my first coaching session ever!  My biggest concern was making sure that I was able to elicit enough from the teacher to ensure she was able to set a clear goal for her teaching focus.  I came armed with some questions and the goal template that we were shown from Skella during our coaching session from her a few weeks ago.

I felt the conversation went okay.  I manged to ensure I limited my comments to questions and clarifying statements rather than trying to offer solutions to the challenges she mentioned she was facing at the moment.  However I did feel that at times I lacked enough questions to enable the teacher to reflect really deeply on her practice and set a goal that truly reflected her biggest challenges.  Her goal, although something she wants to work on, seems like something that she can achieve quite quickly without too much support or work required.

Before my next coaching session with my next teacher, I would like to make sure I have done the following:

• have a wider range of questions pre-prepared to draw from during our coaching session
• ensure the teacher has reflected and answered the questions Myra has prepared for teachers to reflect on before their session.

My next set of coaching sessions are at the start of April so we will see how these go!

Criteria Covered with this experience:
Support others to:
1. establish and maintain effective professional relationships focused on the learning and well-being of ākonga

4. demonstrate commitment to ongoing professional learning and development of personal professional practice