learning how to learn - Steve Barkley

Podcast for Parents: Parents as Learning Coaches

Learning is generated by the actions that learners engage in. I can’t teach you how to play an instrument, I can teach you how to learn to play. You need to do the learning actions to reach the results. Parents as learning coaches are empowering their children for future learning. Learning how to learn is […]

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Podcast: Encouraging Teachers to Begin the Year With a Focus on Student Learning Production Behaviors

Teaching, modeling, and coaching student “learning how to learn” behaviors is always a good beginning of the year focus. Currently, some classes are starting virtually and some are split between in-school and virtual. With nearly everyone needing to accelerate learning, its critical. Steve provides coaching questions to use to guide teachers in this exploration. Subscribe […]

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Attributes for Coaches

In Learningforward’s Summer 2012 copy of The Learning Principal, Valerie von Frank writes about coaching for principals. She includes the following list of attributes of effective coaches: Self-awareness: What drives the coach? What inspires her? Honesty: How does what the coach thinks, does, and says align with his stated values? Sincerity: How do the coach’s […]

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