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30/1/2014

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If you are looking for guidance in making changes to the teaching in your school, here are the first six steps.
A Coaching Approach to Education
We can rely on the fact that living and working conditions in the world change, have always changed and will continue to change. And the pace of such changes will probably get faster, and faster.

Education is the way communities have developed for preparing the next generation for their living and working lives, learning from what's been done before.

The Education System is continuously looking for the best ways to get the best results for ourselves, now and in the future. Any well-functioning system uses feedback to learn from its own results.

  • Coaching (the art of questioning) is an empowering way to learn from results in order to deal with continuous and accelerating change.
  • Coaching moves the communication focus from "Tell" to "Ask".
  • A coaching approach is a natural addition to headteacher's skillset.
  • A coaching approach is a natural addition to a teacher’s skillset
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Generating Effective Lesson Activities

14/1/2014

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Teachers work hard to design the best lesson activities that they can. And yet some teachers are dismayed to discover (from the test results, for example) that their students are not learning half as well as they expected.

When, as their coach, I ask "What can you do differently?", the teachers sometimes are stuck for an answer. They tell me, somewhat defensively, that they have designed the best activities and it's the students responsibility to learn from them.

True, yet there are many things that a teacher can do differently when designing lesson activities so that more students learn more. The first challenge for the teacher is to let go of the idea that they have already designed the best activity, and look for something else that's best in a different way. The second challenge is to find ways of changing the design. To this end I use several parameters to 'measure' the activity.

Parameters

When generating more effective lesson activities there are several parameters that I use:

Ask / Tell
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Visual / Auditory / Kinesthetic


Asking - Two-way communication
The teacher asks, verbally or in writing, a variety of questions that require a physical, verbal or written response from the students.

Telling - One-way communication
The teacher uses reference material and their own experience to inform the students about the subject, through verbal (dialogue, discussion etc), physical (movement, acting etc) or written communication (books, websites, newspapers etc)

Coaching Questions

The aim of these questions is to allow the teacher to reflect on how they usually think when designing an activity, and stretch their thinking in several directions, and consider how the students are affected by the new design. Then they can design a new activity that has a different shape.


"What's the balance between Asking and Telling in the current design of the lesson activity?"

"How much time is spent on Asking Activities and how much time is spent on Telling Activities?"

"Which students benefit most from that kind of activity?"

"Which students benefit least from that kind of activity"?

"What would be a very different balance? (pause) And how might that work out for your students?

"What would be another very different balance? (pause)And how might that work out for other students?

"Which students benefit most from this new kind of activity?"

"Which students benefit least from this new kind of activity"?

"Which students do you most want to reach with this new activity?"

"How could you redesign the current activity to achieve that?"

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Kick starting 2014

3/1/2014

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