Life Coaching Session Log Book

Life Coaching Session Log Book
Author: Natalie Rivera
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-04-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781601660565

This life coaching session log book is a convenient way to stay organized and keep track of important details while working with your clients, as well as look and feel professional. The formatted session templates are based on life coaching industry best practices and were designed by life coach trainers Joeel and Natalie Rivera of Transformation Academy. Space is provided to track important details about individual clients and meeting times, as well as space to keep track of your own reflections, as a life coach, as well as the thoughts, goals and action steps of your client.

A Step-By-Step Guide for Coaching Classroom Teachers in Evidence-Based Interventions

A Step-By-Step Guide for Coaching Classroom Teachers in Evidence-Based Interventions
Author: Dana D. Marchese
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-04-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190671653

A Step-By-Step Guide for Coaching Classroom Teachers in Evidence-Based Interventions is a practical guide for school-based professionals. Combining evidence-based practices with the authors' real-life experiences working with classroom teachers, it represents a decade of research. The authors offer step-by-step approaches, based on hundreds of case examples, to overcoming some of the most difficult challenges faced by coaches and teachers in terms of implementation of evidence-based interventions. This book describes the coaching model and offers strategies for monitoring, enhancing, and troubleshooting teacher implementation. In addition to establishing positive coach-teacher relationships, the authors demonstrate how coaches can incorporate strategies that reflect core principles of behavior change, including modeling, reinforcement, and performance feedback. More than 20 handouts are shared in the appendix of the book. No other text features this distinctive blend of theory, research, and real life experiences, making it a valuable and unique contribution to the field.

Instructional Coaching

Instructional Coaching
Author: Jim Knight
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2007-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452207011

An innovative professional development strategy that facilitates change, improves instruction, and transforms school culture! Instructional coaching is a research-based, job-embedded approach to instructional intervention that provides the assistance and encouragement necessary to implement school improvement programs. Experienced trainer and researcher Jim Knight describes the "nuts and bolts" of instructional coaching and explains the essential skills that instructional coaches need, including getting teachers on board, providing model lessons, and engaging in reflective conversations. Each user-friendly chapter includes: First-person stories from successful coaches Sidebars highlighting important information A "Going Deeper" section of suggested resources Ready-to-use forms, worksheets, checklists, logs, and reports

The Coaching Toolkit

The Coaching Toolkit
Author: Shaun Allison
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2009-05-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1446245519

Do you want to know how to establish a coaching programme in your school? Using lots of examples of successful coaching in practice to set you on the road to coaching success, this book guides you through the process of setting up and running an effective coaching programme in your school. The authors are both secondary specialists, but the principles they set out in this book are broadly applicable to all schools. There is clear advice on: - introducing coaching in your school; - choosing your coaches; - training your coaches; - measuring the positive impact of coaching on the school; - making coaching part of professional development for all staff; - a suggested timeline for implementing a coaching programme. Features of the book include chapter objectives, questions for reflection to use in training activities, a number of short case studies from secondary schools and further education colleges showing how coaching has worked in practice, suggestions for further reading and pointers to useful websites. There are useful photocopiable materials provided to use with most chapters, and there is a PowerPoint presentation available entitled Coaching for Performance that you can use to explain ideas to colleagues. This bank of resources that accompanies the book is available to download from the SAGE website, and you can adapt the materials for any setting. This book is an ideal resource for anyone looking to establish a coaching programme in their school, and offers you all the support, guidance and resource materials you will need.

Student-Centered Coaching

Student-Centered Coaching
Author: Diane Sweeney
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2010-11-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1544303076

"Student-Centered Coaching will change the conversation about coaching in this country. Sweeney shows us how vital it is to focus our coaching efforts on the ultimate beneficiary—the student." —Ellin Oliver Keene, Author and Consultant "An excellent resource that should be on the bookshelf of every principal and instructional coach." —Roberto Pamas, Principal O.W. Holmes Middle School, Alexandria, VA Improve student outcomes with data-driven coaching Student-Centered Coaching is grounded in a simple but powerful premise: school-based coaching can be designed to directly impact student learning. When the focus is shifted from "fixing" teachers to collaborating with them in designing instruction that targets student achievement, coaching becomes both more respectful and results-based. The book also underscores the critical role of the principal in developing systems and structures for supporting teacher development and fostering a culture of learning. Each chapter includes: A model for designing and implementing student-centered coaching Data-driven coaching tools and techniques focused on student learning A framework for measuring the coaching′s impact Specific practices for leading a student-centered coaching effort Also included are exercises designed to promote coach and principal collaboration, giving them essential tools for enhancing student achievement.

The Art of Coaching

The Art of Coaching
Author: Elena Aguilar
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2013-03-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118206533

Hands-on resources for new and seasoned school coaches This practical resource offers the foundational skills and tools needed by new coaching educators, as well as presenting an overview of the knowledge and theory base behind the practice. Established coaches will find numerous ways to deepen and refine their coaching practice. Principals and others who incorporate coaching strategies into their work will also find a wealth of resources. Aguilar offers a model for transformational coaching which could be implemented as professional development in schools or districts anywhere. Although she addresses the needs of adult learners, her model maintains a student-centered focus, with a specific lens on addressing equity issues in schools. Offers a practical resource for school coaches, principals, district leaders, and other administrators Presents a transformational coaching model which addresses systems change Pays explicit attention to surfacing and interrupting inequities in schools The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation offers a compendium of school coaching ideas, the book's explicit, user-friendly structure enhances the ability to access the information.

The Art of Coaching

The Art of Coaching
Author: Elena Aguilar
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2013-02-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118421027

Hands-on resources for new and seasoned school coaches This practical resource offers the foundational skills and tools needed by new coaching educators, as well as presenting an overview of the knowledge and theory base behind the practice. Established coaches will find numerous ways to deepen and refine their coaching practice. Principals and others who incorporate coaching strategies into their work will also find a wealth of resources. Aguilar offers a model for transformational coaching which could be implemented as professional development in schools or districts anywhere. Although she addresses the needs of adult learners, her model maintains a student-centered focus, with a specific lens on addressing equity issues in schools. Offers a practical resource for school coaches, principals, district leaders, and other administrators Presents a transformational coaching model which addresses systems change Pays explicit attention to surfacing and interrupting inequities in schools The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation offers a compendium of school coaching ideas, the book's explicit, user-friendly structure enhances the ability to access the information.

Implementing Classwide PBIS

Implementing Classwide PBIS
Author: Diane Myers
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2020-08-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462543324

Filling a vital need, this is the first comprehensive guide to supporting K–12 teachers in effective implementation of classwide positive behavioral interventions and supports (CWPBIS). The book presents a roadmap for designing and delivering professional development based on behavioral principles. Procedures are outlined for providing data-driven CWPBIS training and coaching that is responsive to the needs of each teacher. User-friendly features include illustrative case studies, learning questions and exercises at the end of each chapter, and reproducible training tools. The large-size format facilitates photocopying; purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. See also the authors' related teacher/practitioner resource: Classwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports: A Guide to Proactive Classroom Management. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.

The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching

The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching
Author: Diane Sweeney
Publisher: Corwin
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2020-04-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1544394330

Insights, ideas, and inspiration to keep student learning at the center of instructional coaching Diane Sweeney and Leanna Harris, whose best-selling books have influenced the practice of thousands of K-12 coaches, frame how Student-Centered Coaching serves as an evidence-based model of professional learning that focuses on student outcomes. Shifting the focus from "fixing" teachers to partnering with them to reach goals for student learning takes coaching to the heart of what matters most in schools. The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching includes all-new material that is grounded in the latest research and the authors’ extensive experience in the field of coaching. In it, readers will find An emphasis on how coaching can be asset-based and focused on equity Current research in adult learning and professional development Examples of how to integrate curriculum into coaching cycles Anecdotes that illustrate what Student-Centered Coaching looks like across grade levels and content areas Designed to accompany Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves (Corwin, 2017) and Leading Student-Centered Coaching (2019), The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching provides the reader with a clear vision for how coaching can promote both teacher and student learning. "In an honest and heartfelt voice, Diane and Leanna provide guidance and practical advice to help coaches navigate the complexities associated with their role. Diane and Leanna′s passion to ensure that student learning stays at the center of improvement work is evident throughout this book as they paint a path of implementation for coaching that will help educators in realizing collective impact." --Jenni Donohoo, Author and Consultant

Coaching Questions

Coaching Questions
Author: Tony Stoltzfus
Publisher: Pegasus Creative Arts
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Counseling
ISBN: 9780979416361

The single most important skill in coaching is asking powerful questions. In this volume, master coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus joins with 12 other professional coaches to present dozens of valuable asking tools, models and exercises, then illustrates these coaching strategies with over 1,000 examples of penetrating questions. Covering the gamut from basic techniques like options and actions to advanced concepts such as challenge and reframing, Coaching Questions is a book that will find a home on any coach's short list of handy references. Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills includes:1. Dozens of asking tools, models, and strategies.2. The top ten asking mistakes coaches make, and how to correct each one.3. Nearly 1200 examples of powerful questions from real coaching situations.4. Destiny discovery tools organized in a four-part life-purpose model .5. Overviews of 15 popular coaching niches, with a tool and examples for each.6. A schedule of training exercises to help you become a "Master of Asking".