Coaching Practicescs-coaching-knowledge-base.md

Storytelling

Front: Storytelling is a powerful way to learn, communicate, and make meaning. It can help you better understand a teacher, communicate ideas and concepts, process experiences, and to internalize learning. Stories that model resistance and persistence may help teachers manage difficult situations. Leverage storytelling to build rapport, promote learning, prompt critical thinking, and build teacher confidence.

Back: Use storytelling for building the coaching relationship and sharing lessons learned from one's CS teaching experience. Invite teachers to tell stories about their own experiences teaching CS: what the teacher thought would happen, what did happen, what the teacher thought and felt, and what the outcomes were.

Reflection Question: How might I create opportunities to share stories and invite storytelling during the coaching cycle?

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