Coaching Teachers in UK

adapted from Teacher.tv

 Click to watch http://www.teachers.tv/video/2504

Length: 30 minutes

Subjects: Coaching and Mentoring  CPD in school  Whole School Issues

Synopsis

Following a number of different coaching situations in action, the programme opens on day one of a three-day training session with trainer Mike Hughes introducing the principles of coaching.

Mike demonstrates one of the most common methodologies used in coaching - the GROW model: goal setting, helping to identify issues, where the teacher would like to be and how they are going to get there. He makes it clear that one of the great strengths of a coaching relationship is that it enables the teacher to take control of their own development and to be in charge of identifying the issues that they want to explore.

We eavesdrop on a real coaching session at Wymondham School in Suffolk where they have introduced coaching as a whole school approach. Finally the programme presents a reconstructed case study about how a new head teacher, using one to one coaching with experienced coach Graham Powell, was able to change the dynamics of her senior management team and help with her personal well-being.

Published: 28 April 2006 by Teacher.tv

Could Hong Kong Teachers also have the opportunity to receive and learn Coaching?