Coaching While Being Coachable

This week, I had the opportunity to spend a day with my students as they competed at their local Leadership Development Events competition. 

Over the past couple weeks, I got to work with a few of my students as they were preparing for their individual LDE competitions. I worked with students competing in Extemporaneous, Creed and Employment Skills. During this time though, I had to reflect back on conversations from AEE 311 with Dr. Curry about what a coach is when preparing FFA students for competitions. I had to take a step back and realize that I still needed to be coachable about how I was preforming as a preservice educator in the role of advisor/coach. Talking with my Cooperating Teacher we had conversations about how to best prepare our students, but still realizing that the work and preparation was mostly on their part. 

I focused a lot with the employment skills students as it was my favorite LDE to compete in while I was in FFA. We talked about creating resumes and cover letters and what their purpose was. I also took time to do mock interviews with each student and talked through their answers and how to better prepare themselves for their competition interview. 

I was really proud of how the Employment Skills participants did with my students coming in 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th and 8th.
I was even more thrilled after hearing my two freshman's creeds. I realized that Mrs. McKelvey and I really had two superstar public speakers for only being in 9th grade. That definitely showed when they took 1st and 2nd. 



Overall, It was a fantastic day with one of our students winning extemporaneous and having seven students qualify to move on to regional competitions at the end of April.  
Employment Skills


Creed

Comments

  1. Daniel FosterMarch 27, 2022 at 4:48 PM

    I look forward to continuing coaching conversations when I visit on Tuesday!

    Good Job!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Microteaching Reflection

During my three days of microteaching, I learned some things that I think may be useful to me. The first thing that I learned is that I absolutely despise teaching over zoom. Many of the suggested improvements to my lessons would have been corrected by simply being in person. One of the worst parts about it is not having any connection with the students in the class. With them all being on one camera, I could not see their faces and it was very hard for me to even pick up their names. Engagement from the students was good for a zoom class, but the discussions were not able to be led very deeply because it was hard for me to read the students because I could not see body language of facial expressions. Another thing that I learned is that teaching over zoom, really makes me move through the content quicker than I originally plan for. During my first day, I taught what I had outlined in my first day lesson plan as well as half of the second days instruction. I am very happy that I had ev...
Read more