 Use Your Edge advocates ‘a coach approach’ to teacher training and development. Coaching is not only a developmental process, but an evolutionary one as well. With a coach you can learn how to be more effective and accomplish more with less effort – this is the developmental aspect of coaching. However, as you go through the coaching process, you will also be thinking differently and expanding yourself and your world, and we can call this evolving. Therefore ‘a coach approach’ to teacher training and development not only focuses on what you do in the classroom, but more importantly, who you are when you are with your learners and in your daily life as well.
On an individual basis we offer coaching and mentoring programmes for teachers, trainers and educators.
For more information on how Use Your Edge can support you and for more on our specially tailored success and development programmes contact us at yoursuccess@useyouredge.com
For schools and educational organisations we also advocate the introduction of a coaching culture and believe that a ‘coach approach’ to interacting with people and developing others is essential. A ‘coach approach’ in this context helps to
- offer options and promote innovation.
- provide support and outcome orientated feedback.
- diminish isolation in teaching.
- foster professional dialogues that encourage teachers to generate effective solutions to their own challenges.
- develop a synergy of creativity.
- increase collegiality.
- enhance communication between all areas of the educational organisation.
- develop and retain valuable staff members.
- recognise the leadership role that teachers must assume.
- ensure accountability.
- equip teachers to be agents for reform.
- make good teachers the greatest teachers.
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