{"id":1970,"date":"2014-05-08T09:35:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T09:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2020-11-05T20:03:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:03:53","slug":"top-5-list-for-adopting-coaching-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/2014\/05\/08\/top-5-list-for-adopting-coaching-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 List for Adopting Coaching Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this you? Are you learning about using the coaching interaction style and finding that you&#8217;re stressed by what you think you&#8217;re supposed to be doing? How<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1971\" src=\"http:\/\/veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_75855151-167x300.jpg\" alt=\"Man with Question Marks Over Head\" width=\"125\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_75855151-167x300.jpg 167w, https:\/\/www.veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_75855151.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/> many reflective questions should you ask? Which question is the right one? Am I allowed to make suggestions or even interact with the child anymore???<\/p>\n<p>First, take a deep breath. It&#8217;s very normal to feel stressed when you&#8217;re trying to learn about and implement a new intervention tool with families. With our state&#8217;s emphasis on coaching, it can be kind of easy to lose perspective and feel like this is the only way to interact with families. I&#8217;m hoping that, after you read this, you&#8217;ll be able to breathe a little easier and be a little more patient with yourself. I&#8217;m going to give you a &#8220;top 5&#8221; list for adopting coaching practices that I hope will help you persevere through this exciting (and sometimes challenging) time with developing your knowledge and skills.<\/p>\n<h2>Top 5 List for Adoption Coaching Practices<\/h2>\n<p>5. <strong>Coaching is NOT a model.<\/strong> We&#8217;ve heard this in training and read about it in <a href=\"http:\/\/products.brookespublishing.com\/The-Early-Childhood-Coaching-Handbook-P230.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook<\/a>, yet we persist with calling it the &#8220;coaching model.&#8221; Understanding that coaching is not a model is really important. A model implies that the collection of practices are a framework for how to provide early intervention. A good example is the <a title=\"Routines-based Early Intervention (McWilliam)\" href=\"http:\/\/products.brookespublishing.com\/Routines-Based-Early-Intervention-P229.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">routines-based early intervention<\/a> model, which is a model we strongly support in VA. Coaching, however, is a tool that can be used with any model. In fact, it&#8217;s described in other EI models, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/fgrbi.fsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">family guided routines based intervention<\/a> model.<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>Coaching is one TOOL in your toolbox.<\/strong> Coaching should not be the only tool, but it is a powerful, evidence-based one that can be used with any family. You will very likely use other tools during your visits, such as purposeful modeling, sharing information, discussing resources, direct teaching\/demonstration &#8211; but remember that all of these other tools, like coaching, should be used for the purpose of supporting the parent&#8217;s learning as well as the child&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Coaching is not all about which QUESTIONS you ask.<\/strong> It can be easy for us to get hung up in remembering which question to ask when. The reflective questions that were discussed in training and in the book are fantastic resources that, I think, are designed to get us thinking about what we say and how we say it when supporting families. We should not be spending our whole visits questioning families. The questions are there to help us facilitate reflection, which is at the core of <a title=\"Who is the Focus of your Visit? - Adult Learning and Early Intervention\" href=\"http:\/\/veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/who-is-the-focus-of-your-visit-adult-learning-early-intervention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how adults learn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Coaching is all about REFLECTION.<\/strong> Adults learn through active reflection which involves taking what they are learning and applying it to their &#8220;prior knowledge,&#8221; or to what they&#8217;ve already tried or already know. Coaching is an adult learning tool to help us help parents do this. Try to step back from all the questions and think, &#8220;my job is to help this parent learn to critically think about how important what she says and does is to her child&#8217;s development.&#8221; During any visit, there will be opportunities for reflection; coaching gives you a way to seize these opportunities when they occur.<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>It&#8217;s OKAY to flow in and out of coaching.<\/strong> When M&#8217;Lisa Shelden said this at one of the <a title=\"What are your A-Ha Moments from Coaching Training?\" href=\"http:\/\/veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/what-are-your-a-ha-moments-from-coaching-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trainings<\/a> I attended, it really stuck with me. You can expect that you will move in and out of using coaching when it&#8217;s appropriate. It&#8217;s a great idea to keep the coaching methods you learned about in the forefront of your mind, and even use them as a structure for how you approach your visits, but understand that, depending on the situation and the needs at that moment, you can decide whether it is an opportunity to use coaching or not. The components of coaching (observation, action, reflection, feedback, and joint planning) can be used on every visit. Eventually, they will be woven into your practices so that they don&#8217;t take so much effort and just become how you interact with families.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not coaching works is mostly about YOU. Okay, I know\u00a0that might add pressure to the situation but here&#8217;s what I mean. It is unfair to say that coaching only works with &#8220;some&#8221; families. Coaching is a tool for you to use when you interact with families and caregivers, to help them think purposefully about what they&#8217;re doing with the child. No, it won&#8217;t always result in a parent having an epiphany, but when you&#8217;re able to successfully use coaching, you&#8217;ll find that your visits become more about what the parent is learning than about which question you ask or which skill the child needs to learn. You will get there . Be patient with yourself and celebrate your efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What successes and struggles are you experiencing with adopting coaching practices?\u00a0If you could add a 6th item to this list, what would it be? Let&#8217;s see if we can get this list up to a Top 10!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this you? Are you learning about using the coaching interaction style and finding that you&#8217;re stressed by what you think you&#8217;re supposed to be doing? How many reflective questions should you ask? Which question is the right one? Am I allowed to make suggestions or even interact with the child anymore??? 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