Combining Coaching, Mentoring & Teaching

 

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Unit: Teaching

Theme: Combining Coaching, Mentoring & Teaching

 

Introduction 

Coaching, mentoring and teaching do not mean the same. Today's class deepens our understanding of these three ways of sharing knowledge with students. It is also important to acknowledge the importance of the arts in  the teaching of all subjects while combining coaching, mentoring and teaching.


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Learning Objectives

 

  • Understand the differences between coaching, mentoring and teaching
  • Explain the importance of mentoring as opposed to just coaching or teaching 
  • Gain an awareness of the importance of making the best out of a mentor
  • Discuss the application of the these concepts:coaching, mentoring, teaching


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Main Lesson


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Review

Discuss the main differences between your ideal classroom and the realities of having your own.

 

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Address one of the issues covered in the article below with your group. Once each member of the group reads his/her part, they will discuss the differences between the terms

 

Mentoring vs. Coaching vs. Teaching  

(When you care; how to counteract students’ cynicism, non-productive habits ).


LINK: The difference between teaching, coaching, and mentoring in people development.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/difference-between-teaching-coaching-mentoring-people-napolitano


QUESTIONS 1 & 2

1. What is the main difference between teaching, coaching and mentoring? 

2. Why is important to  know the difference between these terms?



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A Note to Remember

  Ideally, an educator should be able to be a teacher who also mentors and coaches his/her students. The kinesthetic loop allows the dance teacher to know exactly how the expressive process works.


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Case Study

 D. Sabela Grimes is a 2014 United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow, is a choreographer, writer, composer and educator whose interdisciplinary performance work and pedagogical approach reveal a vested interest in the physical and meta-physical efficacies of Afro-Diasporic cultural practices.

 



The Mentee

7 Ways to Make the Best of a Mentor

Link: https://www.dancemagazine.com/mentors-for-dancers/




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Activity


a) Get in your groups. According to the population you are teaching (Elementary, Secondary, After School and Special Ed.), design an activity in which you explain how the concepts such as coaching, teaching and mentoring combine to produce the best possible learning environment.

b) Add this piece of information to your teaching philosophy, your mission and vision in any way you feel applies to your teaching philosophy previous statement.


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JOURNALING

Write a brief reflection about your takeaways from today's class.



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Glossary


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Sources

d. Sabela grimes: Associate Professor of Practice Hip-Hop, Dance History, Improvisation. https://kaufman.usc.edu/faculty/d-sabela-grimes/

Fiore, Julia (2021). The sordid truth behind Degas’ ballet dancers. https://www.cnn.com/style/article/edgar-degas-ballet-dancers-artsy/index.html 

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake - The Kirov Ballet (2012). Warner Classics.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rJoB7y6Ncs&t=490s

Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring Part 1/4 (2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmgaKGSxQVw&t=373s

Return - Part I Trilogy Choreo video created by guest artists Marianela Boan (2021). Georgian Court University Dance. https://youtu.be/DKNjeSp4HWw?si=-pgWcmOp3dCYpxUQ


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Students' Work

 

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