Small Group Facilitation Reflection

Lolding/ August 15, 2020/ LDRS 663/ 5 comments

Teaching, coaching, facilitation – while these three roles include similar tasks, they have slightly different purposes and goals. Because of the overlap in these positions and their strategies, I feel I am still not completely clear on how they differ, even after studying them in further detail. One of the questions that came up during a group discussion was the

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Core Coaching Competencies in Coaching for Education

Lolding/ August 3, 2020/ LDRS 663/ 2 comments

In my last post, Core Coaching Competencies, I provided a brief overview of the International Coach Federation [ICF] and the eight core coaching competencies. In this post, I will dig deeper into the competencies and how they are connected to effective educational coaching, looking specifically at the K-12 context.   Demonstrating an ethical practice is a non-negotiable in any coaching situation.

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