Coaching in Education: Overcoming Professional Crisis

This one day training for educators (teachers, teacher trainers, non-formal trainers) and coaches was held in August 2022 in Yerevan, Armenia. It was based on the methodology of a famous American teacher coach Elena Aguilar’s, published in her 2017 book “The Art of Coaching: effective strategies to transform schools”, as well as on the online learning experience of “Introduction to Coaching” organized by Teach for All Network. Learning objectives were:

  • Introduce educators to the art of coaching and discuss about the opportunities provided by coaching for the professional development both in ordinary and in critical circumstances,
  • Introduce educators to the coaching tools, and inform coaches of the education
    in crisis needs, especially in the context of continuous professional development of teachers.
  • Provide them with the coaching practical skills that they can use right away in their work 
The workshop consisted of 2 parts: theory and practice.
After that the participants will be divided into groups, to allow each of them to participate in a coaching roleplay: as a coach, as a coachee/client, and as an observer.