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LifeBound - Coaching	
What is Academic Coaching?
Academic coaching is a process that helps students take action and move forward in positive directions in their lives. Through active listening, observing, and asking powerful questions, coaches help students identify goals, develop intrinsic motivation, and establish methods for holding themselves accountable. As a result of the coaching  process, students have a greater vision for their futures and a broader perspective on the choices and consequences they face in their lives.
 
How is Academic Coaching Used?
Academic coaching can be done one-on-one, in group or classroom settings. It can be done in formal hourlong sessions, or on the spot in quick exchanges. Teachers can use these skills in their classrooms, in problem-solving situations with students, and in their roles as advisors. Administrators can incorporate these skills in team meetings and situations where they are facilitating conflict or helping staff set goals and action plans. Finally, parents can use coaching skills to guide their children through the process of self-discovery, helping them develop their full potential.
 
Areas for Academic Coaching
Through the coaching process, students answer questions and engage in self-reflective activities to mindfully create:
  • Vision for what is possible
  • Balance in their academic, social, and emotional lives
  • Perspectives on the challenges they face and the choices they make
  • Accountability to themselves and others
  • Fulfillment from making choices that align with core values
  • Habits of success to help address their personal strengths and weaknesses
 






Academic Coaching Tools
Academic coaches use the following tools to help students think through problems, identify solutions, make conscious choices and evaluate outcomes:
 
  • Listening
  • Observing
  • Asking powerful questions
  • Acknowledging
  • Championing
  • Confronting
 
    Improved Outcomes
     Teachers who receive training in academic coaching are better equipped to:
     
    • Design effective alliances with students
    • Ask powerful questions
    • Acknowledge and champion students
    • Promote student accountability
    • Hone student inquiry
    • Improve students intrinsic motivation
    • Deliver critical feedback
     
    Students who are coached demonstrate:
     
    • Greater self awareness
    • Increased motivation to follow through on commitments because they've helped create the solutions to problems instead of simply being told what to do
    • A better understanding of their personal strengths and weaknesses
    • Improved ability to listen to their instincts
    • A sense of being valued for who they are and what they think, along with feelings of being supported by a teacher, adult, parent or peer mentor
    • Abilities to create and implement actions plans to help them move forward in their lives
      

      

      

      

      

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