1st Edition
Coaching Students in Secondary Schools Closing the Gap between Performance and Potential
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Background and prerequisites
Chapter 1: The benefits of coaching
Chapter 2: What is coaching?
Chapter 3: The evidence for coaching
Chapter 4: The coaching mindset
Part II: Core coaching skills
Chapter 5: Rapport-building, listening and reflecting
Chapter 6: Questioning
Chapter 7: Affirming
Part III: Coaching sessions and coaching programmes
Chapter 8: The 'GROW' model
Chapter 9: Goals and goal-setting (G)
Chapter 10: Reality (R)
Chapter 11: Options (O)
Chapter 12: Will (W)
Chapter 13: A coaching programme
Part IV: Emotional obstacles
Chapter 14: Understanding emotional obstacles
Chapter 15: Introducing students to the 'ABCs'
Chapter 16: Challenging and replacing unhelpful beliefs
Part V: The practicalities of coaching
Chapter 17: Practicalities and logistics
Chapter 18: Contracting
Part VI: Evaluating impact
Chapter 19: Randomised controlled trials
Chapter 20: Other approaches to evaluation
Appendix A: Generating options
Appendix B: Performance goals and learning goals
Appendix C: Student’s coaching form
Appendix D: Coaching contract
Appendix E: From 'PITs' to 'PETs'
Index
Biography
Adam Abdulla is a highly experienced coach and coach trainer and a member of the Association for Coaching. He also has several years of experience as a secondary school teacher. Trained by the pioneers of cognitive behavioural coaching, he has worked with students, teachers, leaders and heads as well as hundreds of clients outside education.
