Personalized Coaching with Steve Barkley

Explore the fundamentals for sustaining a successful coaching program. Represent the coach’s role to staff, build trusting relationships, participate in ongoing training, garner support from administrators, and provide confidential non-evaluative job embedded PD to teachers.

Learn how adept coaches encourage teachers to improve their practice. Learn how to ask open-ended questions, actively listen, and make follow-up inquiries to help teachers explore options and consider solutions.

Examine and implement effective verbal and nonverbal communication to improve your leadership, communication, listening, positive thinking, and support. Focus on the conferencing and facilitation skills of competent coaches. Examine confidentially agreements among coaches, teachers, and principals.

Identify the four types of coaching (technical, challenge, collegial, and cognitive) and determine how they are fundamental to an effective coaching process. Prepare to respond to unique situations inherent in changing practice.

Establish a clear direction and identify your audience to determine what types of questions to ask and to whom. Explore the various forms of questioning that leads others to become proficient questioners in their own right, and as a result, become more responsive to student needs.