With all this time at home in the midst of this pandemic, I would have thought that I had more time to read, and the direct opposite has happened. Not sure why this is happening to me, but I am trying to push through and get back to a reading and writing schedule by starting with small articles and small posts.
Source:
My daily reading queue is over a year long, so I started with this brief coaching post by Elena Aguilar (July 20, 2017), brightmorning (I think it is a blog post that turned into a pdf in my email).
Gist:
This is just a reminder that in order to be an effective coach, practice talking less.
What is Sacred:
When training mentor teachers, I often have to first make them aware of the continuum of "coaching" so they are aware of moving from consultant (lots of talk from mentor, lots of "you should. . ." or "I would. . .") to true cognitive coaching where most of the talking, problem solving and ahas are done by the person being coached.
If you talk too much in a coaching conversation, it’s likely you’re offering advice, sharing ideas, providing heaps of feedback, or sharing your opinion. This will not create an empowered, independent thinker.
Connections to Current/Future Work:
This is a good short reminder that can be placed in the resource folder for mentor training. It is just a reminder and gives really specific actions like timing how long your coaching session is, as well as recording so that you can also monitor how long you actually talked. I notice that people that are just learning tend to want to fill in the spaces of the conversation with babble or what they think are examples, but in a coaching situation really sound like direction.
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