Learner-Development Coaching for Teachers

Course Overview
Learn the basics of taking coaching approaches to teaching and learning in your classroom and beyond.  These approaches are easy for anyone to learn but can make a great difference to your teaching and your student’s learning.    The approaches can be used with primary, middle and secondary school learners.  The basic course, resulting in a Certificate of Attendance,  lasts four weeks with a live 1-hour session at the end of each week (usually on a weekend).  Two extra weeks  of coaching can be added for those who wish to obtain a Certificate of Completion. 
Order of Events:
Pre-course Reading
Introduction, Learner-Development-Centred Approaches, Coaching, Definitions, Goals, Course tips, Course structure and Admin.
Week 1 – Roles, Relationships, and a Few Attributes
Exploring the role of teacher and learner.  Addressing harmful preconceptions.  Creating a relationship of mutual support. Taking action towards nurturing a learning community.  Exploring your next steps and possible actions.
Featuring: an introduction to how we define (so you can use) balance, heartmindedness, being proactive, a curious inquirer and having entrepreneurial spirit as a learner for life.
Week 2 – Engaging the Learner to Engage Themselves
Exploring the nature of engagement.  How to ensure engagement as a disposition.  Building on engagement with trust, effective communication, collaboration and shared vision.  Exploring your next steps and possible actions.
Featuring: an introduction to how we define (so you can use) agile thinking, being wisely courageous, antifragile, erudite (without pain) and also be effective communicators.
Week 3 – Using Entrepreneurial Spirit to Develop Attributes
Exploring the nature of entrepreneurial spirit in the classroom towards independent learner development.  Creating a classroom of opportunity.  Exploring ways to have learners identify and create opportunity for learner development in their lives.  Coaching as a learner activity.
Featuring: an introduction to how we define (so you can use) being open-minded, principled, collaborative and independent.
Week 4 – Responsibility and the Learner
The learner as a coach of self and others.  The next steps in taking responsibility.  The next steps in developing as learners, managing one’s portfolio and finding purpose.
Weeks 5 & 6  – Coaching Case Study
You will put your learning from the course into action either with your students or with a case study – your report on your approach will be assessed.  The course coach will guide you towards the case study though the whole course if you choose this option.