core skills

core skills

Core Skills – Designing Actions

This skill is one that teachers have reported as being their most well-developed coaching skill. There are however ways for you to further develop this

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Core Skills – Creating Awareness

Definition Part of the ICF description of this skill reads “the ability to integrate and accurately evaluate multiple sources of information, and to make interpretations

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Core Skills – Direct Communication

Definition The ICF description of this skill includes “the ability to communicate effectively during the coaching sessions, and use language that has the greatest positive

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Core Skills – Powerful Questions

Definition The ICF describes the skill of Powerful Questioning as the ability to ask questions that reveal the information needed for maximum benefit to the

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Core Skills – Active Listening

Two questions 1 How do you know what the student is really talking about? What clues are there?(It’s in discrepancies between their words, tone of

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Core Skills – Presence

Definition ​The ICF defines “Coaching Presence” as the ability to be fully conscious and create a spontaneous relationship with the student using a coaching style

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Core Skills – The Agreement

The Coaching Agreement As adults we have many agreements with other adults. We have agreements that describe the service we are using and explain the

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Core Skills – Ethics

From my many visits to High Schools I have seen that increasing numbers of teachers are being asked to coach. Some clearer definitions of the

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Core Skills – Trust and Intimacy

I shall talk about establishing Trust and Intimacy with the Client. Intimacy in this case describes the close collaboration that occurs in a coaching relationship.

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