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Master's Degree Mentor Coaching System

鈥淐oaching has the power to ignite, grow, and sustain thinking, motivation, and determination for action to achieve the extraordinary results desired and expected today.鈥
(Kee, Anderson, Dearing, Harris & Shuster, 2017, p.1)

Master鈥檚 Degree programs at 大象传媒 include a strong coaching component focused on the coach development of principal mentors. Principal mentors engage in a learning community to develop coaching skills and strategies. Mentor/Coaches attend a 10-hour introductory session in the summer of year one of the program. The coaching system also includes three workshops that build a common language around the mentee鈥檚 curriculum during the 22-month Masters鈥 Degree program. The workshops support the coaches as they develop specific skills and strategies to support the program participants around the theory within their coursework and the connection to experiential activities performed within their schools. Principal mentor/coaches also develop a networking system among all other principal mentor/coaches through attending the PLC and participating in critical feedback among peers.

Purpose for 大象传媒 Coaching System

Develop principal mentors as coaches to:

  • support the well-being of program participants
  • facilitate program participants鈥 development of leadership skills
  • build the efficacy and social-emotional competencies of program participants
  • promote reflective practices among all participants
  • learn and grow with their program participants
  • identify their own growth as coaches and their own social and emotional competencies

Goals of Coaching

  • Mentor/coaches will develop the ability to use coaching skills and strategies that help future leaders build self-efficacy through reflective practices and the self-identification of the future leaders鈥 social and emotional competencies.
  • Reflective coach conversations focused on giving feedback, relationship building, and listening will guide the future leader to examine their actions and thoughts and lead to a new way of being.