Product reviews for The Perfect (Teacher) Coach

I started reading the book with slight scepticism. Having taught for over 20 years, it is too easy to fall into the -˜teaching' mode when dealing with colleagues who need help and support and just tell them what to do, rather than finding the time for a proper conversation. I now work in Initial Teacher Training and from the moment I started to read Chapter 1, I was thinking about how I could use a coaching approach to my work with trainee teachers and move away from a completely mentoring approach. With each chapter, I became more convinced that I could develop the coaching role in my work. I especially liked the specific examples, like the -˜coaching script' in chapter 4, which shows how by asking open ended questions, the coachee can begin to develop their own solutions to problems and this is further developed in the next chapter on -˜The skill of questioning'. I shall definitely be trying out some of these ideas with my trainee teachers in the future. I found the book coherent and easy to read.