Academic Coaching

Duration: 2 Full Days (8:30am to 4:00pm)
Participant(s): Teachers, Academic Coaches, Tutors, and Administrators
Cost: Call 863-838-3558
Maximum Participants: 50
Requirements: Per participant fee for materials and certification
Prerequisite(s):  None.

Understand why certified Academic Coaches are crucial to the personal and academic success of millennial and non-traditional students.

Why are certified Academic Coaches so important:

• High School attrition exceeds 63% in some major US cities
• Only an estimated 36% of student pursue STEM focused careers
• 53% of 4th graders admitted to reading recreationally “almost every day,” while only 20% of 8th graders could say the same
•  In 2013, Washington, D.C. was ranked the most literate American city for the third year in a row, with Seattle and Minneapolis close behind
• 34 million adults function at below basic literacy levels, meaning they are unable to complete simple literacy tasks such as filling out a job application, filling out a bank deposit slip or read a prescription label (National Assessment of Adult Literacy, 2003)
• Writing is a skill in particular demand in business and higher education, yet only 41% of white students, 16% of black students, 18% of Hispanic students and 15% of low-income students reached proficiency on the 2007 National Assessment of Education Progress.  (Salahu-Din, D., Persky, H., & Miller, J. (2008)

Workshop Agenda Day One:

• Role of the Academic Coach
• Principles of Academic Coaching
• Models of Academic Coaching
• The First Meeting
• Creating a Coaching Plan
• Setting Goals
• Ethics in Academic Coaching
• Brain-Based Learning
• Learning Preferences v. Learning Style

Workshop Agenda Day Two:

• Critical Thinking
• Conflict Resolution
• Importance of Emotional Intelligence
• Understanding Meta-cognition
• Cultural Intelligence
• Academic Intervention
• Confidentiality and Student Protection Laws
• Creating Your Philosophy as an Academic Coach

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