Developing Coaching Cultures
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A coaching culture is one where: "Coaching is the predominant style of managing and working together, and… a commitment to grow the organisation is embedded in a parallel commitment to grow the people in the organisation.” (Clutterbuck & Megginson, 2005, p. 19).
The development of a coaching culture in a school has been shown to have a number of benefits. It can, for example: promote reflection; develop teaching strategies; support cross-fertilization of effective practices; enable CPD to be tailored to individual circumstances; and support practitioners to become more reflective, critical and analytical in the way they think about their work. |
Naturally, each school's journey towards the development of a coaching culture is unique, and so APS does not offer a set package in this respect. However, if you are interested in developing a coaching culture at your school, support might include:
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- Helping you to develop and shape a vision regarding the development of coaching at your school.
- Providing foundation or advanced training for staff/in-school coaches.
- Providing supervision for coaches (individual or group).
- Regular individual or team coaching sessions to review and shape your progress towards the development of a coaching culture.
- Support with planning how to evaluate the impact of coaching.
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"The support and training for peer coaching that [APS Coach/Trainer] provided enabled staff to feel completely equipped to start coaching. Through [the] training, coaches here were skilled, inspired and committed to the powerful opportunities that coaching can offer. Personally, I found that coaching enabled me to seek and find solutions to leadership and management issues arising from establishing coaching at our school." - Secondary School Leader of Professional Learning.