Coaching Workshop 2 Lead by Skella Keepa

Reflecting on our first set of coaching sessions:

• Having the time to meet with the people that we are coaching
• Meant that we showed the importance for the process
• Having the competence and the coaching separate
• Going into the coaching session without an agenda - not knowing what direction the conversation is going to take
• Coaching conversation can jump around 
• Tangents can be good as that what is what the person being coached needs to be discussed

Learning's from Coaching Sessions

• Learning to hold your tongue and not give the answers to the coachee - and solve their problems
• Nice to allow the space and time for the voice and time for the coachee to share
• Looking for the body language to add to the discussion that is happening for the next questioning pathway
• Make sure you plan where you will sit for the conversations - side by side is best, but can be opposite but make sure there isn't a table in between
• Could try whiteboarding the GROW session with the coachee - can use this for groups too

Focus of Coaching

• Helping releasing a persons potential to maximize their own performance
• That doesn't sound like that is a focus for you at the moment - whats the focus for this term/right now?
• Mindset stuff
• Whilst that sounds great, that sounds like a safe option.  What can you do next to challenge yourself a bit more?
• Take away blockages for the coachees

Great Questions to Use:

• If you were me what do you think you would do?
• Thinking of your goal, do you think this and this and this will help you achieve your goal?  If this doesn't work then say 'i'm going to take my coaching hat, and put my monitoring hat on'.
• What will success look like for this goal?  When you are success for this what will it look like?
• Tell me more about that?
• In the next month what would success look like for you?
• What have you learnt?  What have you implemented so far?  Where to now?
• So if we had no limitations, what would like to do?
• To maximize the benefits from the learning you have had what would you like to do?
• In the next two weeks what would you main focus be?  Let's get the pathway to that.
• Are those options achievable?
• What advice would you give yourself?
• Where are you now in relation to your goal?

Maori Lesson Observation

Today Amy came into my class to observe me taking a lesson on our current Maori focus - learning the names for family members in Maori - i.e. Grandad - koro, grandma - kuia.  Amy was looking to see that I was teaching the language using the IRDPX structure.  Amy said that she was impressed with my structure and the way I went through IRD.  Amy then took over to do a couple of games that help to reinforce the learning of the names.  She recomended that I spent a bit more time on discrimination as they were a few kids who were getting a little confused.

Games Amy did with the class to reinforce the recognition/production stage of IRDPX:

Student wears a headband with a picture card attached with velcroe outside the room
The class says "kahu mi" (come in)
Student comes back in and the class says "Hello and the name in Maori of the picture on their headband"

4 students wear headbands with picture cards attached to the headbands.  Class then plays head down thumbs up.  When the students guess who picked them they need to say their name as the Maori picture card.


Links to the Practicing Teacher Criteria
During these Maori lessons I believe I have shown
Criteria 3. demonstrate commitment to bicultural partnership in Aotearoa New Zealand
Because I demonstrate respect for the heritages, languages and cultures of both partners to the Treaty of Waitangi

and

Criteria 4. demonstrate commitment to ongoing professional learning and development of personal professional practice
Because I participate responsively in professional learning opportunities within our Vardon learning community