The Coach’s Playlist is a one-minute read packed with quick and useful resources based on an essential element of effective coaching.
This week’s topic: Questions
The Idea: Never ask a question to get the answer you have already chosen.
Quotation: “A good question is like a lever used to pry open the stuck lid on a paint can.” Francis Peavey, quoted in Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question
Book: Jackie Walsh and Beth Dankert Sattes, Leading Through Quality Questioning
Resource: Great Questions for Instructional Coaches, Radical Learners Blog
Video: One example of questioning to set a coaching goal (6 min)
Question: How often do you ask questions that are actually advice disguised as questions?
Professional Development: The Impact Cycle virtual workshop
Jim,
Do you know where this video came from?
“Video: One example of questioning to set a coaching goal (6 min)”
It’s right in line with what we’re trying to do with Classroom Discourse coming out of the passivity of the pandemic.
Thaks,
John
Hi John,
Thank you for your question! The video in this post is from Jim’s research about The Impact Cycle. You can learn more and find additional related videos from The Impact Cycle from the book by the same name: https://www.instructionalcoaching.com/the-impact-cycle/
You can find more free materials by going to our Resource Library and on the Document Tag field select The Impact Cycle. https://www.instructionalcoaching.com/document-library/
We also have a two-day, online workshop by the same name, which can be found here: https://instructionalcoaching.com/virtual-coaching/#one-day