My Coaches’ Couch

6: Prompting Positive Reflection

This episode offers a magic question that balances affirmation and analysis, helping teachers anchor reflection in strengths and opening the door for refinement and deep learning.
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Get more coaching tips at MyCoachesCouch.blogspot.com. To request a digital poster with a reminder of some powerful coaching questions, submit this form and you’ll receive A Dozen Questions for Coaching.

5: Using Third-Point Communication in Tricky Conversations

Wondering how to prepare for a tricky instructional coaching conversation?
Instead of telling the teacher what you saw or making suggestions for strategies they should use, shift attention to a third point that does the hard talking for you or with you. 
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Get 15% off my book, Differentiated Mentoring & Coaching in Education, on the Teachers College Press website by using code FDNF25 at checkout.
Get more coaching tips at MyCoachesCouch.blogspot.com. To request a digital poster with a reminder of some powerful coaching questions, submit this form and you’ll receive A Dozen Questions for Coaching.

4: Coaching Celebrations

This episode offers a magic question for coaching that sparks joy and spotlights teachers’ successes.
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Get 15% off my book, Differentiated Mentoring & Coaching in Education, on the Teachers College Press website by using code FDNF25 at checkout.
Get more coaching tips at MyCoachesCouch.blogspot.com. To request a digital poster with a reminder of some powerful coaching questions, submit this form and you’ll receive A Dozen Questions for Coaching.

3: Responsive Recommending

This episode describes how to make sure that any coaching recommendations you make are responsive to teachers’ needs.
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Get 15% off my book, Differentiated Mentoring & Coaching in Education, on the Teachers College Press website by using code FDNF25 at checkout.
Get more coaching tips at MyCoachesCouch.blogspot.com. To request a digital poster with a reminder of some powerful coaching questions, submit this form and you’ll receive A Dozen Questions for Coaching.

2: Magic Coaching Question

This episode describes an opening question that gets coaching conversations productively rolling along. 
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Get 15% off my book, Differentiated Mentoring & Coaching in Education, on the Teachers College Press website by using code FDNF25 at checkout.
Get more coaching tips at MyCoachesCouch.blogspot.com. To request a digital poster with a reminder of some powerful coaching questions, submit this form and you’ll receive A Dozen Questions for Coaching.
 

1: Coaching Pumpkin Patch teachers with the GIR Model

In honor of the season, this episode gives ideas for how to coach Pumpkin Patch teachers – those teachers who are desperately hanging on to old ways of doing things.
 
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Get 15% off my book, Differentiated Mentoring & Coaching in Education, on the Teachers College Press website by using code FDNF25 at checkout.
Get more coaching tips at MyCoachesCouch.blogspot.com. To request a digital poster with a reminder of some powerful coaching questions, submit this form and you’ll receive A Dozen Questions for Coaching.