Evocative Coaching: Transforming Schools one Conversation at a Time

摘要

Coaching has become a very popular technique for staff development and school improvement in recent years and many academic and how-to-make it books and articles have been published to help educators adopt this technique in their work. "Evocative coaching" is a welcomed contribution to this scholarship as it combines both kinds of writings in order to "describe a method through which instructional leaders (e.g. coaches, mentors, peer coaches, department chairs, supervisors, and others) can assist teachers to more fully meet that bottom line [...] by increasing their trust, self-efficacy, motivation, appreciation, resourcefulness, and engagement" (p. 5). To this end, the authors have combined their two areas of expertise in adult learning and educational leadership synergistically to suggest an innovative approach to bring about constructive change among teachers. This approach comprises the process the authors dub "story-empathy-inquiry-design" (SEE)), and working in evocative ways with individuals and their environments.