EAN: 9783954893645

COACHING A WAY TO DEVELOP THE TEACHERS INTERNAL...

The purpose of this study is to identify and elucidate the influence of coaching in teachers
attitude and performance as perceived by inexperienced in coaching practice nursery school. The
question that guided this study is What is the impact of coaching in a Greek nursery school?
This study focuses on three research questions: How do teachers evaluate the coaching
experience? What are the benefits and the implementing of coaching? If and how teachers
interaction with coaching changes their attitude? The author s research was influenced by her
first degree in early childhood education  and her own professional background. One head
teacher and five teachers provided the study evidence. The qualitative approach was used to
collect and analyse the data. This research has been a follow-up to a descriptive  exploratory
qualitative case study. The findings were based on several different research tools such as
semi-structured interviews  reflective journals  criteria sheets  coaching sheets  and SWOT
sheets. The examination of the data highlights 5 key issues: the leadership effects in the
working environment and teachers performance  the coaching understanding concerns the degree in
which respondents clarify the different aspects of coaching  the next category  on coaching
difficulties  includes the perceived reasons for which coaching was ineffective  the coaching
benefits introduces the positive contributions of the coaching process  and the final key point
is the coaching influence in the teachers attitude. The findings support that coaching
influences the participants attitude to a limited but significant degree.

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