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• Listening is so important to coaching and supporting other teachers!
• Dyad (ˈdī-ˌad): two individuals maintaining a sociologically significant relationship
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• Objective: Practice listening skills; practice being in an uncomfortable situation discussing a challenge
• Dyad Rules: o Agree to just listen—no interrupting, paraphrasing, giving advice, or breaking in with one’s own story o No criticizing the listener or mutual colleagues o Confidential!
o 3 minutes o Sit facing each other, with nothing else in your hands
• Prompt: Talk with your partner about your role coaching other teachers. What challenges are you experiencing?
How have you tried to address these challenges?
Source: Blanchard, Ken (2000). Leadership and the One Minute Manager. New York: William Morrow and Company.
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• The Dyad: 3 minutes for each person
Listener 1 Listener 2
• Prompt: Talk with your partner about your role coaching other teachers. What challenges are you experiencing?
How have you tried to address these challenges?
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• Intended to challenge a Fixed Mindset, expressed through “rut stories.”
• Directive Coaching addresses the “rut stories” by:
– Listening to the stories
– Disrupting the stories and helping the team teacher identify new approaches
– Helping create new ways of observing the facts and data
– Leading the way in creating a “river story”
Source: Aguilar, Elena (2013). The Art of Coaching. San Francisco, John Wiley & Sons; Dweck, Carol (2008). Mindset: the New Psychology of
Success. New York: Random House Publishing.
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High Supportive and Low Directive
Behavior
Mid to High
Competency
Rut and Low
Stories
Commitment
High Directive and High
Supportive
Behavior
Low to Mid
Rut
Stories
Competency and Low
Commitment
River
Stories Low
Supportive
High and Low
Directive
Commitment and High
Behavior
Competency
High
Directive
River
Stories and Low
Low
Support
Competency
Behavior and High
Commitment
(High) <------ Competency Level -----> (Low)
(Low) <------ Directive Behavior -----> (High)
Source: Blanchard, Ken (2000). Leadership and the One Minute Manager. New York: William Morrow and Company.
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• Facilitative Coaching, or Cognitive Coaching, is analytical and questioning
– Pros: challenges long-held beliefs, can promote understanding and metacognition
– Cons: takes time, difficult to see immediate results, requires a great deal of practice and a very willing partner
• Directive Coaching focuses on behaviors and interrupting mental blocks
– Pros: highlights high-leverage activities, provides new avenues of engaging
– Cons: may not see the changes in perspective, mindset, and assumptions
Source: : Aguilar, Elena (2013). The Art of Coaching. San Francisco, John Wiley & Sons.
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– Visualization and Guided Imagery
– Role-Playing
– Videotaping
– Focused Instructional Review
– Co-Teaching
– Co-Planning
Source: : Aguilar, Elena (2013). The Art of Coaching. San Francisco, John Wiley & Sons.
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• Three approaches to Directive Coaching:
 Assertive Approach
 Informative Approach
 Prescriptive Approach
Source: : Aguilar, Elena (2013). The Art of Coaching. San Francisco, John Wiley & Sons.
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1. On a small sheet of paper, write a description of a challenging coaching situation at your school with which you need help.
2. Do NOT include identifying information.
3. Give general relevant context (novice teacher, elementary, special ed, shares a classroom, etc.)
4. Explain the challenge and how you know it is a challenge. Describe what you have done to address the challenge.
5. Fold the paper and give it to me.
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• In pairs, review your assigned case study and discuss how to best handle the situation.
• Put your thoughts on the chart paper.
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• How would you deal with your case-study situation?
• What would be some drawbacks of your approach?
• What might be some other options if your approach does not work?
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• Review each group’s suggestions.
• What conclusions did they draw about the people involved? What quadrant would they be placed in on the Hersey-Blanchard matrix? Why?
• What actions do they propose? Do you agree with their course of action?
• What directive coaching approach do they suggest taking? Assertive? Informative? Prescriptive? None of these?
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• Aguilar, Elena (2013). The Art of Coaching. San
Francisco, John Wiley & Sons.
– www.elenaaguilar.com
for additional coaching tools
• Blanchard, Ken (2000). Leadership and the One
Minute Manager. New York: William Morrow and
Company.
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