The team at Liberty IT share ideas on how teachers can become technical coaches. You don't have to be a digital guru to support digital learners. By developing strong coaching skills you can help your students build their digital literacy, IT and coding skills.
In this simple professional development resource the technical teams at Liberty IT share their thoughts on how to be an effective technical coach - and leverage the skills you've already developed as an educator
This video will explain what a technical coach is and give practical examples to use the coaching technique in the classroom.
Teachers will learn about the Rubber Ducky Principal and how to use effective listening techniques in the classroom.
Teachers will learn about different creative and visual ways of solving problems in a creative way.
Teachers will learn some effective questioning techniques to use in the classroom including Open, indirect and probing questions.
Understanding the benefits of deliberate practice. The more you code, and practice, the better you get.
To understand the clean coding habit of simplicity: the KISS Principle and know how to apply it in the classroom.
To understand Good vs Bad coding and how to break it up and mean something.
To understand what mind-mapping is and how it can be used in technical coaching but in other disciplines.
To understand what peer reviewing is and how it can be used in technical coaching but in other disciplines.
To understand what thinking aloud strategy is and how it can be used in technical coaching but in other disciplines.
