TEACHING AND COACHING SKILLS
TEACHING AND COACHING SKILLS

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to show how knowledge of coaching skills can help achieve thedesired results in pedagogical practice faster and more efficiently. When coaching skills areknown by a team of teachers, these teachers can offer each other support in personal and professionalgrowth (collegial coaching). They do not necessarily have to be professional coaches. It is essential thatthe teacher acting as a coach uses specifically selected questions. These need to encourage their interlocutorto think and find their own solutions to achieve the goal. They must be open and unsuggestive. In this way,the interlocutor will come up with solutions that they would otherwise be difficult, or even impossible forhim/her to reach. Conversation, guided by coaching questions, can also help learners with the difficultiesthey encounter. It is important that the interlocutor wants to solve the problem, the challenge. The casestudy shows how to use coaching skills, especially coaching questions, in pedagogical practice

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