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Building Long Lasting Professional and Personal Relationships With Your Teachers
Building Long Lasting Professional and Personal Relationships With Your Teachers
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24 minutes
Released:
Sep 16, 2019
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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” we take a look at the relationships you will be building with the teachers that you will be working with each day. No matter if you are a teacher who gets elevated to a full-time Tech Coach, a teacher who now has coaching responsibilities, or a Tech Coch brand new to the district, the relationships, conversations, reputation, and trust that you build with your teachers will go a long way to creating a successful year for you and ultimately the digital growth of your students.
Today we are going to take a look at several things that a Tech Coach can do to make sure they are helping their fellow teachers see their vision of what digital learning could look like in their classrooms.
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Building Long Lasting Professional and Personal Relationships With TeachersDifficulties in Building RelationshipsYou are always in the middle between the teacher and the administration world
You are usually either trying to build personal relationships or attempting to come up with a way to entice teachers to try new things that they may or may not be interested in going.
Positives in Building RelationshipsYou are NOT an administrator so you have an opportunity to get to know your teachers on a much deeper level
Teachers are more trusting of you which makes it easier for them to come to you for help and support.
Advice From Other Tech CoachesAmy Storer: (@techamysc ) Bring them to the table. Make them a part of the conversation. So much of what we advocate for our students apply to our teachers too!
Tina Mottl: Be approachable, available, and friendly. It will be easy for teachers not to feel pressured to learn new things.
Dan Kreiness: (@dkreiness) LISTEN! Do so by asking more and talking less. Letting teachers drive coaching cycles rather than coaches always bringing their own thoughts and ideas. For the coaches: Don’t do too much for teachers – they must be able to do things for...
Released:
Sep 16, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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