Mentoring & Coaching

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                                                          Bettering Yourself through Coaching: 


There are many articles that surround the idea of mentorship and coaching. During my research, I will be discussing (How to Get the Most our of a Coaching Session) and ( Mentoring and Coaching in academia: Reflections on a mentoring/coaching relationship). When reading these two articles, it is clear that they both have a positive stance on the importance of mentorship and coaching for teachers/academics. Although they both support the idea and need for mentoring for academics, they also outlined the issues that surround locating and finding the right fit to make mentoring successful. 

During the article titled (Mentoring and Coaching in academia: Reflections on a mentoring/coaching relationship). The article discusses the idea of needing to ensure that the coach is someone whom is senior to the mentee and that they are working from the same content of knowledge when it comes to course content. It is the coaches job to ensure that the mentee has a full understanding of their positions and the outcomes that they are trying to help enhance. The coach should be working with the mentee to create obtainable goals in-which they wish to show growth in. Additionally, when it comes to setting these goals, both parties should be flexible and understanding if the goals needs to be adjusted and reevaluated. Lastly, while coaching should be focused on ensuring the the mentee is setting SMART goals and professional growth, it should also be a collaboration between the two parties to generate knowledge and new content that might help both parties. 

In the article titled (How to Get the Most out of a Coaching Session), it focuses on the effort of commitment of coaching and how get the most out of your sessions and mentoring. The article discusses how coaching is an ongoing process that continues after the sessions are done. There are several factors that can make coaching beneficial to you. One would ensuring that you are paired with someone who has the skills set that you wish to improve. This can be hard content like building a better curriculum, or curving challenging behavior among your students. This could also come in the form of having a coach that is very skilled at taking ideas into consideration and generating actionable goals that allow you to be successful down the road. Regardless of what you need to be coached in, it is important that you have a coach that will listen, develop SMART goals, motivate you, and help you stay held accountable. Without this, the coaching sessions will just be a waste of time for yourself and the coach. If both parties are not committed during in and out of sessions, the effects will only be short-term. 

When thinking about these two articles, I think that finding a good coach my first year teaching will play a big part of how successful I'll be in five years. It is also important that whoever I choose or is chosen for me that we jive well together and have the same area of concentration. If neither of these are met, it will be hard for me to remain committed and feel like they have a superior content knowledge set that I wish to obtain. Additionally, it is going to be important to be mindful of how much of a commitment meeting with someone can be and ensure that I don't over extend how much time I'm willing to commit.  

The most important thing that I learned from these two articles is, when implemented right, coaching can be a successful tool for teachers and employees in general. Coming from a non-teaching background, I've always seen coaching as a reactive tool for poor performance and not a proactive tool to increase successful future performance. I believe that when you use it as a proactive tool, you get more by in from the mentee and also more long-term effects form the coaching sessions. 



References: 

Carmel, R. G., & Paul, M. W. (2015). Mentoring and coaching in academia: Reflections on a mentoring/coaching relationship. Policy Futures in Education, 13(4), 479–491. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478210315578562

Morel, N. (2019, November 1). How to get the most out of a coaching session. ASCD. https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-a-coaching-session


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