| The Coaching Toolkit: A Practical Guide for Your School Contributor(s): Allison, Shaun (Author), Harbour, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1412945372 ISBN-13: 9781412945370 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $56.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: Are you looking for practical advice on establishing a coaching programme in your school? This toolkit guides you through the process of setting up and running an effective coaching practice, using examples from a school that has actually done it successfully. The book answers the following questions: - how do you choose your coaches? - how do you train them well? - how do you present coaching as good professional development for all staff? - how do you embed coaching into everyday practice? - how do you evaluate its impact? Accompanied by a CD Rom containing tried and tested photocopiable resources to use in your setting, the book offers all the practical materials you will need. This book is an ideal resource for anyone looking to establish a coaching programme in their school. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Administration - General |
| Dewey: 796.077 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8.2" W x 11.5" (0.95 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Do you want to know how to establish a coaching programme in your school? Using lots of examples of successful coaching in practice to set you on the road to coaching success, this book guides you through the process of setting up and running an effective coaching programme in your school. The authors are both secondary specialists, but the principles they set out in this book are broadly applicable to all schools. There is clear advice on: - introducing coaching in your school; - choosing your coaches; - training your coaches; - measuring the positive impact of coaching on the school; - making coaching part of professional development for all staff; - a suggested timeline for implementing a coaching programme. Features of the book include chapter objectives, questions for reflection to use in training activities, a number of short case studies from secondary schools and further education colleges showing how coaching has worked in practice, suggestions for further reading and pointers to useful websites. There are useful photocopiable materials provided to use with most chapters, and there is a PowerPoint presentation available entitled Coaching for Performance that you can use to explain ideas to colleagues. This bank of resources that accompanies the book is available to download from the SAGE website, and you can adapt the materials for any setting. This book is an ideal resource for anyone looking to establish a coaching programme in their school, and offers you all the support, guidance and resource materials you will need. |
