Can you envision a world where teachers and learners infuse their creativity, enthusiasm and joy for learning in the classroom? Post-pandemic teaching can greatly benefit from the incorporation of professional coaching and key principles from neuroscience and neuropsychology into the learning process, particularly language learning, which can instigate feelings of anxiety, fear and embarrassment. Using coaching as a vehicle to change the way educators communicate may be the key to helping the learners of today and also relieving the educators. One of the greatest challenges that comes with this is bridging the dichotomy between required certainty and structure from the teaching perspective and the spontaneous coaching presence that is an integral part of coaching.

Some key research explores how coaching conversations impact learners’ brains and provoke different trains of thought. Certain models can be used to help troubleshoot and solve dilemmas and help learners discover themselves, reinforcing ownership of their learning. 

Coaching is about empowering learners to self-discovery.  This session will explore how the joy of learning can be rediscovered post-pandemic by transforming the way teachers transfer their expertise and knowledge, particularly in the case of language learning. 

THREE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In this session, you will learn:

1 How educators can use coaching competences to transform learning conversations

2 How to bridge the dichotomy between teaching and coaching

3 How to adapt a learning process to learners