Excellent use of my time.
It is important that we live what we do. I have a coaching role at school and love working with staff. There is no better joy than talking a person through a dilemma and supporting them to work towards a solution. However, often people do not have time to sign up, they have a million other things on their radar and this slips to the bottom of the pile. No matter how much we discuss its practical importance, it becomes another add-on. This frustrated me, as I was (and still am) trying to work out how we could further embed coaching into the fabric of the school.
Then I thought, why do I not engage in coaching conversations myself? Why am I putting coaching t the bottom of my list? The answer is time and value. Even though I know the benefits and the value, I am not putting it at the top of my list. How can I expect others to do so, if I do not?
So I decided to engage in a coaching conversation with John, a very talented teacher here ayt school, who as also undergonethe Cognitive Coach training. I was hit with two dilemas
What do I need to discuss? I wanted it to be authentic and, at first, I felt it needed to be grand. This is the issue facing so many of us. We feel the coaching conversation must be about a grand idea or massive change, otherwise it is not worth while, otherwise I am wasting John’s time. It took a LOT of soul searching and considering for me to realise this is simply, not the case. In the end I decided that the most pressing issue I currently faced was:
I was having an issue with the essays written in my class, I was at a loss on how to
