When you integrate mental models into your coaching, the deeper insights that accrue strengthen a sense of purpose, enable accurate predictions, and harness personal power. This presentation will show-and-tell how to coach a teacher to identify learning problems in their class, and to assemble techniques into effective clusters — thereby surfacing previously hidden beliefs about classrooms. By combining a visual playbook with the freshly discovered mental models new levels of effectiveness become possible.
Developing teachers' mental models should be a core aim of coaching.Integrating mental models into coaching can support teachers to identify learning problems.Developing mental models can support teachers to better predict impact and guide their instructional decision-making.