Language Teachers:  Do something amazing and transform your results. Enhance your teaching career or choose a new career path.

This course is accredited by the ICF (International Coach Federation) with 30 Continuing Coaching Education (CCE) hours, plus 6 hours of Resource Development. The course has a very well-balanced ratio of theory and practice with a high degree of active coaching, so you instantly come into practical coaching and “learning by doing”.

We introduce you to Coaching

The first sessions focus on introducing participants to coaching in general and also to the International Coaching Federation principles and core competences. It also introduces an understanding of the theory and principles behind brain-based coaching and how neuroscientific research can assist in understanding and formulating powerful coaching conversations.

This introduction aims to lay the pathway for participants to really assist and coach others to focus and develop themselves. Participants develop key coaching skills, such as active listening, powerful questioning and effective coaching conversations as well as learn to use different coaching models.

Participants immediately start with coaching practice to pave the way for the neuroscience and the language coaching.

We introduce you to Neuroscience and Emotional Intelligence

The second part of the course takes participants through the principles of neuroscience, how the brain functions, learns and reacts, building up the knowledge step by step and then understanding how this applies to language learning, The importance of understanding the emotional brain, social pain, and potentially the perfect learning state as well as the respect for each and every learner as individuals.

We introduce you to Neurolanguage Coaching Skills

This part focuses on equipping participants with an understanding of the theory and principles behind language coaching and the ability to integrate principles of traditional coaching and brain-based coaching, together with the neuroscience of learning into the language learning process. In effect, as a Neurolanguage Coach, we go one step beyond language coaching. Coaching models are practiced and also new language coaching models as well as a definite structure for the language engagement is introduced.

Learning outcomes:

• Sets the foundations for coaching and coaching conversations;

• Deepens coaching effectiveness;

• Enhances active listening and speaking skills;

• Gives insights to various coaching models and develops their use in practice;

• How to use traditional coaching models in the language teaching process;

• How to create the perfect learning state in the coachee based on principles of neuroscience;

• How to connect language coaching to the ICF coaching competencies;

• How to engage coachees into focused learning and sustain their goals with high success rate;

• How to connect and apply new language coaching models to the teaching process;

• How to make the transformation from language teacher to language coach;

• How to tailor make courses to the individual coachee.

Conducted by: Aleksandra Halchenko