Level Up Your Coaching (Perspectives on Coaching): Introducing Our Experts!
Introducing our 8 Experts in our new series: Level Up Your Coaching.
9 Jan 20198min
Relationships: The Power of Learning Together as New Coaches Jana Poukka and Nadia Ellis
Hello coaches! Welcome back to another episode of Coach.Better! Today Kim is chatting with two of our amazing participants in the second cohort of our The Coach microcredential: Jana Poukka and Nadia Ellis. Jana is currently a Technology Coach in Germany, and Nadia is a grade 3 classroom teacher and team leader in Vietnam. Jana and Nadia are both new to coaching and describe their professional growth process for learning about how to be an outstanding learning coach. For those of you new to coaching, this conversation highlights the many different elements which are critical for the success of developing your coaching skills. And you'll get an inside look at our The Coach microcredential to see if it's right for you! Full Shownotes here: https://elpn.edurolearning.com/coachbetter/episode-17
2 Jan 201943min
#coachbetter Bonus Episode: 2019 #coachbetter preview
Woohoo! Great things are coming to the channel in 2019! We're so excited about all the developments in our #coachbetter series that Kim had to share them here with you! Plus you get a sneak peak at one of our new series coming in 2019 called 5 Minute Friday with quick coaching tips in under 5 minutes every week! The one shared in this bonus episode is 5 Ways to Become a Better Learning Coach.
26 Dec 201810min
Demonstrating Your Value as a Coach with Coaches Panel
In this episode we're chatting with our panel of coaching experts from our Coaching Fundamentals series about demonstrating your value as a coach. If you missed our Coaching Fundamentals series, we have a link in our full shownotes to it. This conversation was full of practical strategies and tips for tracking, documenting and sharing the value coaches add to any school. We talked the different types of data we could be collecting and how we can use it to inform our practice as coaches. If you're not tracking your impact as a coach yet, now is a great time to start! Full ShowNotes here: https://elpn.edurolearning.com/coachbetter/episode-16
19 Dec 201847min
Going Deeper with Coaches with Will Kirkwood
Today we're chatting with Will Kirkwood, Educational Technology Coordinator in the Lower School of Zurich International School. Will shares his thoughts on how to reposition his role as a tech coach "from having cool experiences and fixing things, to engaging in conversations about improving student learning". Full Show Notes here: https://elpn.edurolearning.com/coachbetter/episode-15
12 Dec 20181h 1min
We're All on the Same Team: A Counselor's Perspective with Adam Clark
In this episode, we're chatting with Adam Clark, Secondary School Counselor at Yokohama International School in Japan. Adam highlights the importance of building an open and collaborative school culture where teachers, coaches, students and leaders all feel safe enough to be vulnerable in their individual learning journeys. Full Show Notes here: https://elpn.edurolearning.com/coachbetter/episode-14
5 Dec 201842min
We're All on the Same Team: A Librarian's Perspective with Danny Glasner
This week we're talking to Danny Glasner, K12 Teacher-Librarian at UWC Thailand in Phuket. Over the course of his career, Danny has been a classroom teacher, librarian, and a coach, so draws from lots of different experiences in our conversation about librarians and coaches today! He highlights the importance of collaborative relationships in making coaching most effective and points out some really interesting similarities and differences between being a librarian and a coach. Full Show Notes
28 Nov 201834min
We're All on the Same Team: A Teacher's Perspective with Jabiz Raisdana
In this episode we're chatting with Jabiz Raisdana, Head of Grade 8 and Middle School English Teacher at United World College, SouthEast Asia in Singapore. As an experienced classroom teacher, digital literacy coach, and school leader, Jabiz shares his perspectives about building a successful coaching relationship. Jabiz highlights the importance of viewing your colleagues as human beings and the need for coaches to adapt and adjust for each individual teacher, just like we would for students. The strong coaching culture established at UWC that Jabiz describes provides a great foundation for what coaching can be, so there are lots of great takeaways for teachers, coaches and school leaders! Full Show Notes https://elpn.edurolearning.com/coachbetter/episode-12/
21 Nov 201840min
