Advising and Academic Coaching Interest Group
Coaching
has been found to be an integral part of life success for several
years. Today, coaching is becoming a viable addition to student
success in the academic world. Coaching does not have to be an alternative
to advising; coaching and advising can be intertwined to increase
the chances for students to be successful – in college and in life! Ultimately,
the advisor/coach should have the skills to:
- Identify what the student wants
to achieve;
- Encourage the student to look
within to learn more about self;
- Allow/support the student to generate
solutions and strategies to problems; and,
- Teach the student to be responsible
and accountable for his for her actions/inaction and decisions.
The key to this process is to help
students take their lives to a higher level!
Academic coaching is an interactive process that focuses on the personal
relationship created between the student and the coach. The coach
challenges the student to think about his or her personal and/or professional
goals in order to relate them to his or her academic/educational goals.
In this learning process, it is important for the coach to encourage
the student to become more self-aware by understanding his or her
strengths, values, interests, purpose, and passion. This process should
also focus on the student developing necessary skills to be responsible
for his or her actions and decisions. Through this learning and growing
process, the coach should provide the student with resources to enhance
academic success and personal development, as well as developing action
plans that holds him or her accountable for the results. Academic
coaching is designed to help students produce fulfilling results,
improve their performance, and enhance the quality of their lives!
As coaching becomes a viable skills in advising, the Academic Coach
should have the following characteristics:
- Develops a personal, collaborative
relationship with the student.
- Provides support to help students
relate academic/educational goals to life (personal/professional)
goals.
- Encourages the student to achieve
self-awareness, such as identifying strengths, values, interests,
purpose, and passions.
- Assists the student in becoming
more responsible and developing decision-making skills.
- Identifies resources to enhance
both academic success and personal development.
- Assists in developing plans of
action - and holds them accountable - to achieve substantial results.
If you have a desire to enhance your
advising skills as well as potentially make changes in your own life,
consider becoming a part of the Advising and Academic Coaching Interest
Group.
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