Reasons Why Teachers Need Professional Development Coaching

As parents, sending our children to school is a crucial step in both our lives and our children’s lives. School is considered to be our kids’ second home. This is where they develop as individuals, not just academically but socially, emotionally. Teachers can in many ways represent their parents in the school. They are the educators that do not only work for a child’s academic development but also, the child’s overall development. Teachers need professional development coaching. It will help them to maintain their professionalism and effectiveness in carrying out this crucial role in the children’s lives.

In reality, not all home environments are perfect. Children can be fighting their own personal battles daily. Whether the battle takes place at home with other members of the family, or at school with perhaps troubles with a peer, children find it hard to open up and seek help with any personal issues and concerns. One of the most important roles of a teacher other than educating the young academically is to understand them and help to resolve their concerns. It is such an important vocation help the younger generation to fully develop into sound and functional individuals in our society. Teachers offer another pathway for our children to get all the help they need.

Teachers work with parents in making sure children grow up to be contributing citizens of our community, our country, our world. This is not a simple task to take on. At times, being an educator is not entirely enough. Aside from what can be dealt with by the mind, like formulas, logic or systems, teachers are expected to aid in ensuring that our future leaders/workers/citizens of our community will become honest, caring, productive and good-natured individuals who will contribute and assist in the progression of the community/country/world as a whole.

Teachers need coaching from an experienced professional to improve the following:

Professionalism

Teachers, above all, are one of the oldest and most respected professions in the world. Every single leader, coach, educator, artist, professional, and parent has a teacher that they looked up to. Children see them as their parents in the school. Most of the time, kids believe and listen to what the teacher has to say. In the eyes of the young, the teachers are the epitome of being professional and knowledgeable in everything. A teacher needs to receive professional coaching as a reminder to know where they can help a student in need, and also to stay within the limits of their role and not go beyond what they are supposed to in the lives of the children.

2. Plays a big role in the development of the children

Teachers are the role models of our children in school. For many, a teacher can be their first positive role model. Households around the world enroll their young in schools at a certain age to learn more about the society and the world we live in, to develop more of the skills they have, and to further their social skills by forming relationships with people from different age groups and to learn how to deal with situations without the care of their parents. Independence is learned in school where the kids are taught to work on their own, solve academic problems by themselves, deal with peer conflict the best way they know-how and to improve their mobility, confidence, and understand their own beliefs.

Teachers need to be professional when they are dealing with the children. This is because aside from lessons in class, there may be times when they need to provide emotional comfort and guidance to the children.

3. Personal Growth

Being a teacher drives educators to be focused on a particular field or subject all the time. Everybody wants to have teachers who are experts in their field. Teachers want to also move together with the changing times and expectations of the school, the parents, and the children. To maintain their image and self-esteem or growth, teachers need professional coaching to always be at par with the other educators and other professionals in the academe.

4. Collaboration

Teachers collaborate with the other professionals in the academe in making sure they keep each other in check when it comes to professionalism, knowledge, and sensitivity to the needs of the children. Each educator has a moral responsibility to the future generation and becomes their best in every aspect of their role. Professional coaching helps the teachers by being guided in the protocol and necessary skills they need to improve or acquire in ensuring the future of the people they are educating.

There may still be a lot of reasons why teachers need professional coaching. However, the above mentioned are the most common and obvious reasons why teachers need professional coaching periodically in their careers.

For more insights on getting professional coaching, contact me, Carrie Benedet.