Welcome to our course on academic coaching, which has been developed with Sarah Kravits and Carol Carter from LifeBound. Academic coaching is a student-centred approach that helps students produce fulfilling results in their lives. This equal-power relationship is formed through meetings that are driven by the student’s own agenda and shaped by the coach’s use of strategic questioning that guides students to identify their own issues and generate their own plans and actions in response. The process helps students deepen their learning, take responsibility for their actions, improve their effectiveness, and consciously create their outcomes in life. This course explains the principles underpinning effective practice and describes how to run a coaching session.
“Coaching provides an opportunity for the student to define their own unique needs and goals, and receive targeted support toward those goals.”
Get Involved And Share Your Learning
- Share your perspective. Throughout this course, you will see discussion prompts at the end of each lesson inviting you to share your thoughts and experience. We encourage you to respond to these discussion questions and read those of other educators to benefit from theirs. When you see a comment you agree with or find helpful, hit the ‘Like’ button to help other educators find it. You can also reply to any comments from other members that you find interesting.
- Ask a question. You can ask questions of experts and other educators in the discussion threads in courses.
- Pick up your course badges. To earn your Course Completion Badges make sure you mark all lessons as ‘Mark Complete’ once you have completed a lesson. At the end of the course, click ‘Mark Complete’ and you will be asked a few multiple-choice questions to earn a Course Completion badge. Once you’ve had a chance to apply your learning, come back to complete an Impact Badges by applying what you have learned in the courses and answering a short survey.
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