Purpose of this new-look newsletter

Welcome to GCI Insights, our new look global newsletter, now reaching educators in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the USA, and many other countries.

We’re well aware that educators are busy, so we have curated some ‘coaching in education’ related pieces to bring them to you in a readily accessible way. We’ve chosen a more compact format with a few headings as organisers, so you can glance over them and find what is relevant and interesting to you.

Our intent is not that you read through it all (although don’t let that stand in your way if you’re so inclined!), more that you select and customise from what’s there.

Invitation for feedback

We want this to be flexible and responsive to your needs, so if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you.

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Over 2000 respondents completed our 2018 Coaching in Education Survey—a record! While most were from Australia, over 10% were from New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Well over 80% of respondents said their professional practice had improved as a result of being coached, which is consistent with previous surveys. You can find more detail along with comparison data to previous reports, below.
 

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Thinking Together
Plenty of thinking, both aloud and silent, goes on behind the scenes in our offices. We’d like to share some of that with you.

You can get to eavesdrop on a collegial conversation about the value of having an observer in the classroom, in relation to coaching.

Or maybe you would like to get a heads-up on the thinking that is driving the learning processes in one of our new programs, Leaders Coaching Leaders with Senior Consultant Di Henning and Director Vic/Tas Chris Munro in conversation.

A different take on thinking is consultant Jan Alen’s comments on a book that stimulated her thinking about coaching – Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

Sophie Paterson, another GCI Senior Consultant, brings us a very positive summary of Jim Knight’s book, The Impact Cycle. Read The Impact Cycle review here.

Professor Rachel Lofthouse from Leeds Beckett University conducts very useful research into the process of coaching in education. In her latest article “Coaching in education: a professional development process information” (Professional Development in Education 2019, Vol 45, No. 1, 33-45) she reports on a study of six experienced coaches and their practice, demonstrating the significance of relationships and dialogue in coaching.

This article helps us understand more about the nature of the conversational space that best supports a coaching partnership.

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