Educators: this initiative provides you with the opportunity to boost your personal and professional development within Education
C4E works with:
- Principals and Headteachers who are committed to the long-term and continuous care and development of their teaching staff
- Experienced teachers who seek to take a moment to reflect and review what’s been working and what’s not been working; to regain clarity of purpose; and to renew their energy and enthusiasm for the teaching profession
- Newly-qualified teachers who are looking for the most effective ways to learn from their ongoing teaching experiences.
IMPORTANT POINTS:
- Coaching conversations are strictly confidential. We keep no notes without your permission
- Within the world of Education, you choose which areas to work with. You set your own goals
- We ask open-ended questions and we listen
- We hear you, in depth, then we reflect back what we have heard from the depths of your heart and mind
- We do not give answers, together we find them.
What Educators are saying about C4E
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Everyone needs a coach to ask those important and difficult questions. This has been extremely helpful to me in my effort to find my value base and priorities.
Highly recommended! John Steinberg, retired School Principal |
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It was good to think aloud about my work situation.
The best part was getting a direction to think about and try out in between coaching sessions. I can absolutely recommend this coaching. Anne-Maj Olsson, Teacher |
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Setting aside an hour a month has helped me to find the dynamic balance between my professional and private lives, working in a challenging, bilingual, pre-school environment.
Kara Fairchild, "Havet" Preschool Director |
Coaching definitions
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"Coaching is a collaborative, solution-focused, result-orientated and systematic process in which the coach facilitates the enhancement of work performance, life experience, self-directed learning and person growth of the coachee”
Coach Anthony M Grant |
"We train our coaches to create a relationship that supports the individual client at looking deeply at the different areas of their life and making choices that are based on what’s most fulfilling, rather than on what’s the most expedient or what others expect."
Karen Kimsey-House, CTI Founder Coaches Training Institute |
About being coached
- Being coached is easy and fun
- This is your life, your mission and your work. You will not be given advice about working in education. You will define your own path through your life and work
- You will experience how a coaching approach can support you as an educator
- You are the expert of your work and life. The coach is not an expert in educational matters
- Your coach is not a teacher nor a therapist, nor a counsellor
- You will not be formally taught how to use a coaching approach, however, your experience of it will improve your work as an educator in some way
- The coach does not decide what you will talk about, you do!
- You will decide what homework to do between the coaching sessions, and design it together with your coach
- The coach will not give you a written test to discover the coaching you need. You will however, complete a self-reflection questionnaire about the coaching that you want
- You decide what your goals are, perhaps with some help from your coach
- The market value of the coaching is 400 euro for all four sessions. It is offerered to you for free. However, you should commit to attending all four sessions
- When being coached, you should be in a calm and quiet place, and have full attention on yourself. You cannot be coached whilst travelling or driving your car for example.
Said by coachees, about being coached:
- I enjoyed this coaching journey with an open mind and heart. I can't wait to get back to school again
- This was the most inspiring and interesting discovery of my life so far!
- The most enriching thing I have ever done for myself in my teaching career
- I have personally learned a lot about myself and my potential and capabilities as a leader in the classroom
- Deep down, I knew this would be worth it.
- I am feeling more empowered at work now
- Go for it! Feed your curiosity!
- I now truly appreciate the power of silence
- We all need a vision of who we can become
Methodology
Confidentiality
Coaching sessions are confidential. We make no recordings other than coaching notes (with your permission), we keep no records. No reports either.
Powerful Questions
Your coach will ask provocative questions about your topics. In this trusting partnership, you will progress much further, more quickly and have more fun than thinking about such topics on your own.
Curiosity and Non-Judgement
You will be listened to, with full curiosity. You will never be judged. Ever.
Coaching sessions are confidential. We make no recordings other than coaching notes (with your permission), we keep no records. No reports either.
Powerful Questions
Your coach will ask provocative questions about your topics. In this trusting partnership, you will progress much further, more quickly and have more fun than thinking about such topics on your own.
- What's your primary goal at this point?
- What's working? What's not?
- Where is your focus? Where do you want it to be?
- What can you influence? What can you not influence?
- Where can you find additional support?
Curiosity and Non-Judgement
You will be listened to, with full curiosity. You will never be judged. Ever.
Free Professional Coaching Support from C4E
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What's possible in four sessions?
C4E offers four professional coaching sessions for free:
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After these four free sessions, if you wish to continue being coached outside the C4E program, please contact your coach directly rather than via the C4E website.