"Think differently and gain the benefits"
Coaching literally means ‘to transport a person from one place to another’ (think about the old style stage coach).
Coaching is a type of learning where the coach supports you to make decisions and take actions which are of benefit to you.
We are all unique and the only person who can know best about how you will succeed is yourself!
As a coach, I will support you to discover what will be the most beneficial actions to take.
My role is to structure the conversation to aid:
ü Identification of your goal or preferred future
ü Consideration of your options
ü Choice of the most suitable course of action
ü Motivation
ü Provide support
ü Provide a measure of accountability
ü Recognition of your strengths and celebrate achievements along the journey.
Coaching can be delivered in a variety of ways which best suit you:
i) by Skype
ii) by face to face meetings
iii) by phone call
iv) by email
Many schools are looking for long term strategies to move teaching and learning forward. Coaching staff helps them develop the skills to improve their own practice. Caroline offers three types of coaching:
Middle Leader Coaching
Ensuring that middle leaders are able to accurately judge the quality of teaching and learning in their subject areas. Joint observations are undertaken with Caroline and staff are coached about how to give good feedback and help move their department forward. Time needed: One day.
Developing Staff Coaches
You will have some good and outstanding teachers that you wish to train as coaches so that they can support and coach other teachers either within their department or across the school. This is a positive way of helping them gain professional development experience and can have a massive impact on the quality of teaching and learning across the school. Caroline has experience of training coaches to do this: this normally entails twilight training and some coaching time in school. Minimum 1.5 days.
Coaching staff
Caroline can coach and provide accompanying training for staff to improve their performance: from Good to Outstanding, or Securing Good Lessons. Do you have a group of teachers who need assistance with a specific area, such as: providing challenge, questioning skills, lesson planning or behaviour management? A structured, supportive programme with training and coaching takes place over a half term for a maximum of 10 staff. Please contact Caroline directly for more information.
Graydin partner with schools to train senior leaders, teachers and others in the community to coach. Graydin firmly believe that every teacher can coach. Our vision is the transformation of education and we specialise in embedding coaching cultures within education.
"Graydin is a team of passionate and talented coaches who, five years ago, began a journey to create and share a unique coaching model and deliver services designed to meet the needs and challenges of 21st century educators.
Through our collective dedication, heart and energy, we are now a global provider of momentum-building and sustainable coaching services and programmes to schools., colleges and universities.
Graydin delivers in-house coaching training programmes to schools (Independent, State Maintained, Academy and Free Schools) in the UK and abroad. Our services include coaching courses, one-to-one coaching and online support and resources. We have to date trained Senior Leadership Teams (Heads and Deputy Heads), middle management and teaching staff, as well as parents, students and university lecturers."
Outstanding performance is not only the result of having great subject knowledge. Excellent subject knowledge isn't enough to perform at your best!
Head to Inspire provides coaching & personal development workshops to increase the well - being and the professional performance of all staff in schools- from teachers to headteachers, from business managers to teaching assistants.
Whatever your role in education the pressure of balancing the deliverables with the needs of the students is enormous. Teaching can be enormously rewarding, but it’s not without pressure and stress at both strategic and operational levels.
Transformational coaching can change that situation by reaching to the core thinking and creating a way to meet the challenges of the educational environment. You’ll find our approach is tailored to your role to work on your vision, leadership, stress transformation and re-energising performance.
What does this mean for your school?
Clarity of vision and the route to enhanced progress and school improvement
Increased enthusiasm, ,energy and attainment in the classroom
More conscious levels of accountability and responsibility
A deeper understanding of each person’s role and what can be delivered
A school with a strong ethos, clarity, focus and improved performance at every level.
The coaching programme involves working with individuals on a confidential one-to-one basis. This means that each person gets precisely what they need the most to allow them to break through their personal barriers. It’s an innovative, experiential and personalised process.
As individuals excel, teamwork also improves and the school benefits in its overall results.
Let’s talk about your aspirations and explore the means of achieving them – please call Hugh on 07940 553877 to start the conversation.
TRANSFORM your wellbeing
The 5-step Wellbeing TRAINING COURSE for teachers and SCHOOL leaders
Practical, research-driven online training to help you understand and proactively manage your mental, emotional, and physical health.
5-STEP WELLBEING ACTION PLAN
This 5-step toolkit is based on scientific research and was created by Maria Brosnan, a wellbeing expert with over 30 years’ experience.
The training programme comprises 35 bite-sized lessons, delivered over a period of 30 days, all geared towards measurably improving your mental, emotional and physical health.
It’s developed specifically for teachers, supports better relationships with colleagues and helps you cope better with uncertainty and change.
Supervision for Head Teachers, Assistant Head Teachers, SENCO’s and those involved in Safe Guarding.
Why do people who work in Education come to supervision?
One Assistant Head from Warwickshire said it gives her
“the chance to reflect holistically on my practice, understand and share the blocks that were /are hampering me being the best me I can be at work - and subsequently out of work - and finding a place to offload my worries with regard to safeguarding and the toll it can take physically and mentally.”