This document discusses using coaching tools within the Elluminate online conferencing environment. It provides an overview of a JISC-funded project at Leeds Metropolitan University that aims to develop self-directed learners through coaching. The document introduces some common coaching techniques like the Wheel of Life and exploring values that could be used within Elluminate. It also briefly describes what coaching entails and asks attendees if they have experience with Elluminate, coaching, or being coached.

1. Coaching as student
support via Elluminate
Dawn Wood & Janet Finlay
Leeds Metropolitan University
d.a.wood@leedsmet.ac.uk
j.finlay@leedsmet.ac.uk
Project Blog: http://www.pc3.org.uk//

2. Introduction
 JISC funded project until May2012
◦ Personalised Curriculum Creation through Coaching (PC3)
 Project Aims
◦ Utilise the technique of coaching to develop self-directed
learners who are able to choose their own personalised
curriculum
 Embedding the practice of coaching
 Students
 Tutors
 Developing courses/programs with curriculum choice
 Personalised Learning through Coaching Module (PLC)
 Providing the “jump off point” for a personalised curriculum across university
offerings
 Today
◦ Explore the use of coaching tools within the Elluminate
environment

3. A few questions
 Have you used Elluminate?
 Have you created an activity within
Elluminate?
 Has anyone been coached?
 Has anyone coached?
◦ Face to Face
◦ Via phone
◦ Via conferencing

4. But first … what is coaching?
◦ A conversation
 Draws out from the coachee
 The coachee speaks more than the coach
 The coachee finds their own solutions
 Unlike tutoring and mentoring
◦ Keys to coaching:
 Raising Awareness
 Encourage responsibility/ownership
 Develop trust/confidence

5. Coaching Tools
 Wheel of Life
◦ Explore the big picture
◦ Identify key areas for development
◦ Focus on some quick actions
 Values
◦ Identify underlying values
◦ Ensure the coachee is focusing on Ends
not Means Values
 Means values contain an ends value
 Ends values are core

14. Other Tools
 Postcard from the future
◦ Draw or write a postcard
 Sensory Preferences
◦ Coachee describes a familiar scene in detail
◦ Coach notes the makes a note of the sensory
category the words belong to:
 Visual — seeing
 Auditory — hearing
 Kinaesthetic — feeling
 Olfactory — smelling
 Gustatory — tasting
◦ Together they can identify the coachees
preference

15. Thank You.
Questions?
Dawn Wood & Janet Finlay
Leeds Metropolitan University
d.a.wood@leedsmet.ac.uk
j.finlay@leedsmet.ac.uk
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