TITLE OF THE PUBLICATION
School coaching – Raising the potential of students in difficulties
« Coaching scolaire – Augmenter le potentiel des élèves en difficulté »
SURNAME AND NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Gaëtan Gabriel
PUBLISHER
De Boeck – Collection « Comprendre »
PLACE AND DATE OF PUBLICATION
Brussels – November 2011
LANGUAGE OF THE DOCUMENT
French
LANGUAGE OF THE REVIEW
English
THEMATIC AREA
Students with learning difficulties
DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS
How to have a positive and constructive perspective and how to mobilise the potential of the student? How to listen to them and make them aware of how they work? How to make them responsible of their choices and acts? …
In a first part, the book proposes an approach and concrete leads to practice school coaching of young people and adopt an attitude that can bring changes.
In a second part, the author suggests a framework adapted to school coaching, in order to delineate its perimeter in the multitude of coaching possibilities and define its particular intervention field. Because for them, commanding tools such as neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) or transactional analysis (TA) or be a coach are not enough to be a school coach.
COMMENTS ON THIS PUBLICATION
This book is the result of a field experience and enriched by the analysis of practices and is the temporary outcome of the author’s reflection action.
Education professionals (teachers, psychologists, educators…), coaches and any person interested in coaching and assisting young people will find in this book leads for action and understanding, reading tables and practical tools.
They will also find the state of mind and position to adopt in the framework of this firmly positive approach.
Note that the edition initially presented in the “Stay@School” project has been revised and updated.
Name of Compiler
Julien Keutgen
Name of Institution
Inforef
Role in the institution
Translator – project assistant
