| Seq #72 | Thursday, 9 March 2006 | |||||||
| 2:00 PM-5:00 PM Swan Hotel 10, Workshop | ||||||||
| [JOINT] Academic Coaching and Its Application to One-on-One Teaching, Mentoring, and Leadership | ||||||||
Sponsored by: ADEA | ||||||||
| Description: Coaching is defined as an ongoing, proactive partnership focused on increased learning and improved performance by providing structure, support, and feedback. The application of coaching concepts to academic settings has the potential to stimulate and motivate students toward higher scholastic goals. As coaches, faculty must realize that all students enter our colleges with cognitive profiles which are balance sheets of individual strengths and weaknesses. Some students, for example, have strengths that make them high achievers in the biological sciences but weak in clinical areas. In order to successfully coach students, faculty must be able to accurately identify students’ strengths and weaknesses, examine the impact of their behavior on their performance, and regularly and intentionally provide guidance and/or a plan toward improved performance. In addition, coaching skills are strongly linked to mentoring and leadership skills that all faculty should have in their skill toolbox. The goal of this workshop is to introduce faculty to the concepts and tools of academic coaching and its application to one-on-one teaching. Upon completion of the workshop participants will be able to identify the skills necessary for effective academic coaching, identify areas where coaching skills may be incorporated into daily activities, recognize, more fully, their own roles and responsibilities as a coach, and initiate the development of coaching skills. Characteristics of effective coaches will be presented using brainstorming, case-based, and small group activities supported by mini lectures | ||||||||
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