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Foundational Coaching Skills Training (Ontario Principals’ Council)

October 18, 2024 to December 11, 2024

  • Category: Course, Online
  • Region: Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, GTA, Northern Ontario, Outside Ontario, Southern Ontario
  • Topic: Other, Teacher Development, Teacher Leadership
  • Grades: Intermediate (grades 7-10), JK-SK, Junior (grades 4-6), Primary (grades 1-3), Senior (grades 11-12)

“Coaching is one of the most impactful processes in supporting leaders and teachers in growing their competence and confidence in the application and integration of new skills and strategies.”

When Mentoring Meets Coaching: Shifting the stance in education (Sharpe and Nishimura, 2017) p 29.

The Foundational Coaching Skills Training is offered in three one-day sessions that can be booked individually or as a full program.

Since 2007, the Mentor-Coaching Institute has provided participants- administrators, supervisory officers, teachers, district employees- with an enhanced skill set that supports capacity building in a variety of educational contexts. This course grew out of continuous requests from educators for in depth training in the specific skills needed to be coach-like as a leader/teacher.

In each session, participants will be provided with many opportunities to practice and integrate the skills, attitudes, behaviours and conversational pathways that a coach-like leader or teacher-leader needs to inhabit when working with teachers, students, other administrators, colleagues or parents.

The training has been carefully designed to support the participants’ learning and growth over time, with space in between each session for practice back ‘in the field’.

A 60 minute follow-up Virtual Roundtable is included after Parts 1, 2 and 3 to support participants with the integration of their learning and the coaching skills within their specific role and context.

The training has been designed for a maximum of 35 participants.