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Craig has spent more than 30 years coaching athletes and mentoring coaches.
This section shares ideas, insights and practical coaching concepts drawn from that experience.
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Coaching is Teaching
What Do You Notice?
Hook ’Em In
Start With the Game
Let Them Explore
Shape the Environment
Coaching Behaviour Matters
Keeping Kids in Sport
If you are new to Craig’s ideas, these articles provide a clear introduction to the core principles that underpin his approach to coaching and learning in sport.
Together they form the Coaching is Teaching series.
Coaching Philosophy
Ideas about how learning happens in sport and why coaching is teaching.
Game-Based Coaching
Practical ideas for designing training environments where athletes learn through play
Coaching Behaviour
How coaches influence learning through their behaviour, questioning and session design.
Youth Sport & Participation
Creating environments where young athletes enjoy sport and continue participating.
GUNN TIPS FOR COACHES #10 - 365 DAY PROJECT 2019/20 - IS EX MATILDA JOEY PETERS AUSTRALIA'S OWN JOHAN CRUYFF
G’Day ‘learners’.
Today’s blog will help sports coaches (and all caring adult stakeholders) to:
Consider the idea of non-contested spacial use to better inform the practice and future of your own and peers’ efforts with learners…
As promised here is something from great learner of Dutch/World soccer:
When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average … So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you’re a good player or not. (Great Human (RIP))
Here I’m pretty sure he is is suggesting that dribbling practice around cones and the like makes no sense, especially for adept players. What is the AFL equivalent? Kick to kick or handball to handball in my opinion. NRL and Rugby? Line passing without defenders. Not only are they unrealistic (in fact in the AFL suggestions you have two lines moving only to what's in front of you like league) but defy the idea that most of the stuff players in most any level do is find space, deny space or dispose of balls under pressure.
Now, I know he is an ‘outlier’ but the Don hit one six only in his career. Aussies are reared are reared on the tale of him with the golf ball, stump and water tank. ThusI hope we remember that nurturing and environment are pretty important…
Speaking of environment, anyone who has ever seen me coach ‘contact’ knows however that there is a time for simplification and closed dills. Yet I am aware that many people refer to my teaching as “Gunny Madness” or “Gunny Chaos”. Thus, I feel that I need to have a look at my sales pitch.
For instance take a look at the below questioning to me from a former team-mate and Adelaide friend of Dr. Shane Pill:
Gunny, one thing I didn’t ask was, using last night as a template ,would you normally stop and add the layers as frequently as occurred, or, would you let the players have more time on a particular set up before moving on to the next layer?
The question is probably more aimed at coaches of a group for the year ( 2 nights a week 1- 1hr 15min) as opposed to teaching them new thoughts as in last night session.
Is it better to keep changing it up as rapidly to keep them on their toes, or, really let them settle into one segment without boring them, to try to get a particular part right?
Not sure if this is a right or wrong answer style question but just so I can get a feel for a coach who has the team long term.
An experienced PE teacher can tell that this human is a very experienced coach. For example, he picked up that the changes were coming rapidly and guessed correctly that they were probably for observing coaches. implementing them in a suite later He is also hinting that at times it’s important to stay where the learners are deeply engaged and that there is no right or wrong. Well that’s my reading of it anyway! In any case, it’s a clear example to me that maybe I should be called ‘crazy’. I mean here I am presenting things in such a way that even an experienced coach is confused. Not that confusion isn’t great for learning of course…
Which brings me to the point of this piece. You see, the coach interacting with me in questions above played a very high standard but was not absolute ‘elite’, like Johan Cruyff. I STRONGLY believe that this class of player are often the better coaches. In fact, apart from the amazing Simon Black, there are not many long-term ‘elite’ former male players of AFL in particular, who are as liberal minded as Johan. Of course, notwithstanding those with a teaching degree.
You see, the sub-elite spent more time on the bench. The ‘elite’ always got to play so often don’t really know why they are so much better than the others. Of course many will cite hard work but for us others, sitting on the bench allows you to be always asking questions about how and why these team mates are better. It also creates an opportunity to become far more observant and reflective. Now this is something that I find is missing with many ‘elite’ turned coaches that I have met.
Maybe it’s different in the women’s game? Well one thing I can tell you is the great Joey Peters of ‘Game Play Learn’ has coached at the top yet still does most of her mingling with the Grassroots!
This amazing national treasure is so so humble!!! Still keen to do the absolute best at learning whilst she can. For who? Her learners. Thus my fellow peers, Joey, who was probably the Sam Kerr of her day (but not lucky enough to be paid like Sam) gives us 10 very easy to understand coaching principles if you dare. They are practical and pretty much all any coach needs to rely on when wanting to improve.
What an amazing human being and of course lifelong learner. So yes, from what I have seen of soccer in Australia, Joey is our Johan: oozing passion, learning, and, care for our young people. Does it get any better than that? I don’t think so! Love walking alongside you in the journey now and again LEGEND! And my peers, seek her out and you will enjoy the learning too!
Find Joey at ‘Game Play Learn’ below. If you want a mentor coach, in any sport, there is none better in this country! I know this, as she is still prepared to give to the Grassroots like a local soccer club in my area and the AFL women I coach. What a national treasure! Please remember Gunny doesn’t drink… Thus, all true!
And on Twitter her preferred sharing space!
https://twitter.com/joeypeters10
Looks like she was a fan of JC too!
Yours in learning,
Gunny
GUNN TIPS FOR COACHES #9 - 365 DAY PROJECT 2019/20 - Craig Can You Tell me WHY You Were at the Level II Coaching Course? I Just Found Out You 'Only' Coach U/11 Girls...
G’Day ‘learners’.
Today’s blog will help sports coaches (and all caring adult stakeholders) to:
Consider the idea of ‘teaching vs administrating’ to better inform the practice and future of your own and peers’ efforts with learners…
If you are reading this BLOG I guess that you are a ‘thinking teacher’. THUS, you may be reading the title of this piece and saying in the local vernacular, “Is this ‘fair dinkum’? Did somebody really allude to the U/11 gals’ coach not being worthy of a LEVEL II?” Yes indeed is my answer!!!
However, I am reminded that this is probably widely copied around the world. AND of course, those who are nowadays leading our coaching in our biggest sports are generally not ‘teachers’ BUT ‘administrators’ OR dare I say it, ‘certifiers’.
It was far worse too than this I can tell you on the course. In fact, I was asked to please stop asking questions and making alternative points… SO I did. I walked out with three sessions to go.
You see, it doesn’t matter that I have created and lectured through entire university subjects on coaching or PE it would seem. AND me pointing quietly in small groups that there are alternatives to the CONTENT presented via research rather than myth was also hard for the ‘BIG Dogs’ to take. However, in the end, ‘they don’t know what they don’t know’ OR are purposefully, professionally negligent… Who’s that bloke who wrote the ‘Davinci Code’?
In any case, I started looking for past ‘content’ I’ve given away, to fit in with my last post on sports’ organisations not always scaffolding ideas like ‘Coaching Philosophy’. Thus, I found an email to a friend from the sport titled: “Is this Gonna Get Me Banned for Life?” AND reading it, I’m not sure why again I was trying not to hurt the ‘Big Dogs’ feelings! Again they asked for an ‘outline’ of a ‘coaching philosophy’. Again, I’ve pushed grade 5 PE classes harder than the questioning ‘guiding’ my thoughts here. THUS, as always. I did my best to EDUCATE like below. I strongly suggest coaches investing in this COACH and STAKEHOLDER development program #ThinkTank2019 and I’m not just saying this because my thoughts on 'ENGAGEMENT feature! I promise…
This is my ‘outline’ that I felt I better justify (but not too much) to help the ‘certifiers’ among one of our best known sports… Begins Now:
Outline of your Personal Coaching Philosophy
I love any Long Term Athletic Development (LTAD) approach that espouses so many more holistic objectives than the ‘traditional pyramid’ approach or pure specialisation (Bailey et al., 2010). The ‘elite’ model found in Australian culture breeds poor competition and athletes with more injuries, lacking fundamental movement skills and players exiting from the sport far too early. My philosophy is to put the individual athlete and their unique needs above all else.
As a holistic, athlete centred coach, in the past I been drawn greatly to Balyi’s LTAD model. Its great strengths is the focus on building the engine first before the race through the many different stages: the incremental use of competition, and a true focus on the athlete learning basics and other important things like game play. However, with experience I now feel that the Canadian inspired LTAD model is a little rigid and too linear let alone has a mainly physiological emphasis which leaves out much that affects performance (Gulbin et al., 2013).
Thus although I am an AFL coach for this assignment, my experience in philosophy finds a focus on sampling sports rather than specialisation on say AFL for our youth. Yet to promote fun and excitement only in youth sport can not be the only objective (Gunn and Pill, 2016). However, Gulbin and colleagues (2013) again would find the present AFL manual problematic: it is generic in regards to ages, is linear and also in our experience it does not consider the individual. For example some kids want to be told what to do in a drill, whilst some like tactical games.
Thus I coach without a model/manual as with experience I am great at looking at the individual past an obedient military prospect. Sadly (Kirk 1996) found that other PE teachers are unable to do much more than direct as per the acculturation of our military past that is so entrenched (Moy et al., 2009). My coaching philosophy’s strength is the premier inclusion of psychological needs and a clear suggestion that skill acquisition is non-linear in nature.
Finally, to support my philosophy I favour the AIS FTEM model, as it: encourages sampling rather than early specialisation; groups athletes by standard rather than chronological age; allows greater movement between pathway; encourages gaining skills from fundamentals; and is more inclusive at all levels.
However one must remember that any LTAD philosophy of coaching is a long term (10 year approach). So what if we lose a few kids (parents) to other sports when they are learning the fundamentals? Rather than weekend wins and losses I focus on retention and development. Although my approach has proven challenging to important stakeholders, if you focus on true individuals, they will come back to athlete centred coaching than ego centric forms.
I explain a little more with one of my favourite educators below, COACH Reed in Podcast! https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-coaching-code/the_c0ach1ng_c0de-ep18-every-aQXIgS69py-/
Thus ‘administrators’ perhaps I can get you to think more like a teacher when it comes to coach development. This is about learners and not numbers you see…
Reflection:
Who’s in front of you? What do they need? Why? What do their needs look like and feel like? Draw it all out in full colour. How do you know that they are engaged? Be specific. What bigger problems are you solving through this teaching? How will you know when you have improved? What is it that your learners ‘don’t know what they don’t know? When will you know, that they now ‘know what they don’t know’? How can you support them to ‘know’??? And on and on and on it goes…
As I say (and John Wooden did too), if you’ve put your hand up to coach… THANKS! But… Please accept that you are a TEACHER!
Yours in learning,
Gunny
PS. Gunny and Dale Sidebottom ‘ENGAGEMENT’ tour of UK and Ireland coming September 2019!
PPS. Get around this amazing ‘Think Tank’ for coach DEVELOPMENT. I wonder is it better value than the Level II mentioned above? YES! Many, many, many times better…
PPPS. Contact me on all the usual platforms, anytime!
GUNN TIPS FOR COACHES #8 - 365 DAY PROJECT 2019/20 - DID SOMEONE SAY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY?
Today’s blog will help sports coaches (and all caring adult stakeholders) to:
Consider the idea of a teaching to better inform the practice and future of your own and peers’ efforts with learners…
The thing with coaching in particular it seems, is that national sports organisations promote amazing ideas like, 'You must have a coaching philosophy'. However when the rubber hits the road, many are not good at saying 'why' and certainly don't show you 'how'. I can provide some of my feedback to AFL for example on this in my Level 2 a couple of years ago. but I’m sure it’s an Australia wide thing. Once again, even more strange is that most ‘levels’ and educational interventions like devising a teaching philosophy are aimed at 'elite' or 'sub-elite' environments…
In any case a reminder: coach ‘development’ isn’t working (here he goes again…). For example, Games-Based Approaches (GBAs) in sport and PE have been around for 50 years as a way of orientating learning activities in performance like environments. GBAs have been promoted too as an alternative to the 'skill and drill' methods that are certainly dominant in Australia and many other nations. In any case, many of us who know a little bit but devote OUR energy at the 'Grassroots' know 'alternative pedagogy', that is student centred and NOT 'one size fits all' has struggled to get any footing. It’s a point I constantly try to make like below with great teaching peer Dale Sidebottom: when are you going to show coaches HOW again???
Which leads me to the focus of this blog… The best thing I saw on social media yesterday was the below from my Welsh rugby coaching peer, Nathan Gosling. Nathan is a supreme operator and PE teacher/coach with amazing experience who walks the ‘talk’. However, interestingly ‘philosophy’ was part of a current job application. He of course took it to the next level!!! Fingers and toes are indeed crossed that you got this mate and thanks for helping us out as fellow learners.
I’m looking forward to meeting Nathan face to face when I and Dale Sidebottom ‘tour’ (or learn with peers) in UK and Ireland in September this year However, knowing a bit through our digital opportunities nowadays, it’s clear that Nathan is a lifelong learner who is deeply reflective. How lucky are the people coached/taught by him? AND, as teachers of experience will tell you, this philosophy ‘thingo’ changes constantly if you continue to improve.
YET once again, I’m just ‘telling’ you this… How are we going to do the HOW?
Here is a little bit of help from old Gunny… Feel free to email me (or other forms of messaging) any responses or thoughts too on contacts below.
REFLECTION for your beginning coaches or experienced peers who want a ‘nudge’:
What has been an educational learning/defining coaching/teaching moment for you in your life?
Describe for me why this was so powerful (negative or positive).
How has it affected your teaching/coaching philosophy?
Why is coaching and teaching important to you?
This is a start only anyway, and you can find a ‘guided reflection’ around this in ‘Grassroots Coaching and Consulting’ Facebook group (not the page) in files section. Feel free to join nearly 550 coaches from all sports, contexts and continents looking to give back to volunteers!!! Just like Nathan Gosling.
Yours in learning,
Gunny
By the way, Gunny and Dale Sidebottom https://energetic.education/ are coming to UK and Ireland in September:
email: coachgunny@craiggunn.org (September UK and Ireland tour of learning 2019)
Again learning peers, I’m Gunny. If you want these Blog Posts to your inbox send me a personal email on address above or other, and, I’ll start compiling an all-important ‘list’.
The HOW (not WHAT) of coaching can be found at the ‘Gunn Engagement’ YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DAC5b2rZHlt8bxXHVgAHg/featured?view_as=subscriber
Please SUBSCRIBE!
To correspond on today’s post, provide discussion guidance, or ask questions that can be used in future posts, connect with me on:
Twitter https://twitter.com/c_gunny73, OR
FaceBook Pages, https://www.facebook.com/coachgunnybrizvegas/
AND https://www.facebook.com/gunnengagement/
OR LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-gunn-b5017a69/
OR Website, www.craiggun.org
If you find the ‘Gunn Engagement - 365 Day Sharing Project’ to be a supportive resource, please consider sharing with your friends and network—again, don’t forget to subscribe to the email list or YouTube channel and again tell your friends and colleagues. ‘Word of mouth’ is still my preferred advertising.
‘Gunn Engagement - 365 Day Sharing Project’ was brought to you by, me Gunny, and superior learning vision is curated by my partner in learning Anthony O’Brien of AOB Media, https://www.aobmedia.com.au/.
Of course learn more about my work or how to hire me as a consultant, facilitator, or speaker, through 0431311070.
Finally, “Kids learn teacher NOT subjects!”
GUNN TIPS FOR COACHES #7 - 365 DAY PROJECT 2019/20 - ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE AFTER A MENTOR?
Here Coach Gunny asks if we are too quick to push the, ‘I need a mentor button’.?
Today’s blog will help sports coaches (and all caring adult stakeholders) to:
Consider the idea of coaching mentors to better inform the practice and future of your own and peers’ efforts with learners…
I am not sure who first said it, but the best coaches look to make themselves redundant. It’s certainly something I practice and well before I even knew the phrase, I would read a book or two by Rugby League legendary coach, Jack Gibson every year to sharpen my focus here. Of course most of my international peers have never heard of him but he was the ultimate in this regard. Indeed, he was known to be employed for short stints only where he’d go in and improve the club from their original position and then leave (generally on a high) with a replacement set. For example, my own team, Parramatta were strong but yet to win a premiership until Jack had them win three years in a row. He then handed off to the groomed John Monie who was a coach again a decade at least ahead of his time. He was always player centred coach as cited here (www.leaguehq.com.au):
““He was the best coach I ever played under,” said Easts captain of ‘67, Jim Matthews, “although I never felt that I really got to know him. He was a tough man, and he coached us as individuals to get the best out of us as a team.””
Obviously whilst I still improve my own craft every training session, I now spend my time ‘coaching’ coaches and their many teams rather than focusing on my own group. Yet I still remind myself like Jack above, that I am coaching individuals. However, sometimes I need to catch myself or others in their conception of ‘coaching’. Plenty of times I have been asked by coaches for advice as a ‘mentor’. Luckily for me they come from all around the WORLD including from sports I’ve never played or coached. Below is an example from today and the reason why I’m highlighting it is to have my peers’ contemplate if they really need a ‘mentor’ when a ‘coach’ or a simple ‘mate/friend’ could be what’s required…
“Hey mate! how you going? How’s your coaching going?
I have a question for you. And it’ll start sounding arrogant but bare with me.
_________ club was a dumpster fire last few years. I’ve cracked the whip and now we’ve play two competition rounds. Won all 5 games across all grades (and 6th was a forfeit by other team)
How would you recommend continuing the success while still encouraging to enjoy the wins that they weren’t getting in years previous? How do you stay motivated and humble but still enjoy it”
In my excitement to respond to this success (having known a bit of the back story over the last year) I tried to reply like a mentor when really he wanted a ‘coach’. He certainly isn’t a close friend considering we have never met in the flesh. I would also suggest that he is a very good coach from my knowledge so the idea of me as ‘mentor’ is a bit of a stretch. Indeed, I often wonder about the idea of ‘mentor’ anyway. I mean I indeed thrived on them but they were always twenty years older!!! As such, the idea for me that my ‘experience’ means anything to anybody else’s individually complex context is a little absurd anyway. Yet, that’s how we are conditioned I guess. Thus I gave him pats on the back, resources and the offer of ‘coaching’ but at all times reminded him of his pivotal role as ‘change agent’ in all of this. Yet I still gave him ‘advice’…
After I pressed ‘send’ I thought deeper. Why did I not just coach him? Well obviously, Mrs Gunn has had enough of me under charging for my services… BUT really, the opportunity was there. The ‘answers’ like in the last BLOG, ‘lie within’ (Whitmore)!
Thus with this in mind, keep asking questions. I know I’m doing it myself at the moment through this BLOG and its answers are like GOLD! BUT coaches, be sure to recognise the difference or coaches, mentors, mentors and ‘self reflection’. I think we are often too quick to look for the ‘all knowing enlightened one’ for help. As I have said many many many times to coaches I work with, say in the real young grades: Craig Bellamy, Alistair Clarkson, Sir Alex Ferguson or Judy Murray would all struggle in your unique context…
Now, I know many coaches who read this are ‘nerds’ like me AND probably deeply reflective. Thus for you and when needing ‘help’, please first consider, do I NEED: a mentor, coach, friend, or, a good hard think on my own? They all have their place. However, well before your subject matter and pedagogical skills, people like Coach Wooden had ‘intra’ and ‘inter’ personal skills as far more important building blocks. THUS, get to know the difference especially when asking the players for accountability!
AND finally, for your turn and when being asked for ‘advice’, remember this old and most underused piece of coaching and reflective gold from the Army’s AAR method: What went well? What didn’t? What would you do differently next time? It’s that good, that businesses can’t DO it without reducing it to a ‘technique’ rather than an evolving process (Senge, 1999)…
Yours in learning,
Gunny
By the way, Gunny and Dale Sidebottom https://energetic.education/ are coming to UK and Ireland in September:
email: coachgunny@craiggunn.org (September UK and Ireland tour of learning 2019)
Again learning peers, I’m Gunny. If you want these Blog Posts to your inbox send me a personal email on address above or other, and, I’ll start compiling an all-important ‘list’.
The HOW (not WHAT) of coaching can be found at the ‘Gunn Engagement’ YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DAC5b2rZHlt8bxXHVgAHg/featured?view_as=subscriber
Please SUBSCRIBE!
To correspond on today’s post, provide discussion guidance, or ask questions that can be used in future posts, connect with me on:
Twitter https://twitter.com/c_gunny73, OR
FaceBook Pages, https://www.facebook.com/coachgunnybrizvegas/
AND https://www.facebook.com/gunnengagement/
OR LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-gunn-b5017a69/
OR Website, www.craiggun.org
If you find the ‘Gunn Engagement - 365 Day Sharing Project’ to be a supportive resource, please consider sharing with your friends and network—again, don’t forget to subscribe to the email list or YouTube channel and again tell your friends and colleagues. ‘Word of mouth’ is still my preferred advertising.
‘Gunn Engagement - 365 Day Sharing Project’ was brought to you by, me Gunny, and superior learning vision is curated by my partner in learning Anthony O’Brien of AOB Media, https://www.aobmedia.com.au/.
Of course learn more about my work or how to hire me as a consultant, facilitator, or speaker, through 0431311070.
Finally, “Kids learn teacher NOT subjects!”
GUNN TIPS FOR COACHES #6 - 365 DAY PROJECT 2019/20 - IS SPORTS COACHING STILL INNOVATIVE?
Today’s blog will help sports coaches (and all caring adult stakeholders) to:
Consider revisiting other forms of coaching to better inform the practice and future of your own and peers’ efforts with learners…
The year 2018, I retired from Academia. I’ll keep learning outside and in higher education institutions but as mentioned before in previous blogs, I had lost a great deal of enthusiasm for it as much of what I’d spent a great deal of time teaching coaches and PE teachers regarding alternative pedagogy. This is because there was ultimately a ‘wash-out’ when it came to any change among the ‘real’ courts, fields and classrooms of learning. However, a colleague, Ian Renshaw did suggest to me to check out the below Podcast first.
There are many out there like Stuart’s (Sport England) encouraging us to rethink our involvement as sporting stakeholders but interesting here I remember was my point (somewhere near half way perhaps) that sports coaches and the like seemed to have stopped learning. Indeed, life, business, executive, career etc coaches who’d previously look at sports’ coaching for guidance, were now seen by me in the least to be far more innovative and learner centred than us.
In fact, to ensure I continued to learn and improve my coaching I even gained an Executive Coaching qualification, endorsed by the International Coaching Federation. It was here that I came across the odd bit of pseudo-science true (but most still used by educational and sporting institutions anyway) BUT also a person centred coaching push that can be easily turned to for guidance. In the podcast above, I remember mentioning this to Stuart, and he agreed with me that the ‘GROW’ model (Whitmore, 1994) that I was exposed to at the National Coaching Institute (g’day Paul and Wendy Timms), was a ‘game-changer’.
I love this video above from Whitmore in 2009: “learning occurs on the edge”; “the answers lie within”; etc. Love his take on capitalism too and the environment. PLUS getting stuck into CEOs in the audience. But off the politics now… Can see here I hope that coaching is supposed to be about unique, dynamic learners? Indeed, what I truly liked about the coaching learning in my ‘diploma’ was the practicality of it all. It was full of ‘tools’, ‘frameworks’, ‘templates’, ‘tips’ and the like, plus, of course the importance of leadership and self-responsibility.
As such, I decided to borrow from much of my learning here and focus on my ability to scaffold sports’ coaches and all adults through making the 365 days project all about self-responsibility within individual learners in any sporting learning group.
Thus Five Gunn Coaching Tips to Reflect on from Other Coaching Forms:
Gunn Tip One = The Answer Lies Within - When have you encouraged your learners to devise their own unique learning solutions? Individual, environmental and task conditions and characteristics are always interacting in GREAT coaching (Newell, Whitmore and others…); How do you coach for this?
Gunn Tip Two = Coaching is an intervention or active process based on doing. When have you recently made your sessions their most practical best by ensuring ‘positive doing’ (Jauncey) rather than positive beliefs’ and words etc? How have you helped fortify your learners’ responsibility for action?
Gunn Tip Three = Coaching should be strengths based. Much like the amazing Australian HPE Curriculum and Queensland Senior Physical Education curriculum, long gone are the days where you show videos of smoking’s affect on lungs and then say DON’T SMOKE… When have you enlivened the strengths and positives within individuals to negotiate their accountability for actions? What specific actions did your learner/s own?
Gunn Tip Four = Question/problem solve rather than command… Describe a time recently where you have asked your problems to define a problem rather than you ‘telling’ as ‘expert. How did you know that they were ‘engaged’ in learning here?
Gunn Tip Five = Solutions emerge through action of trial and error (think, act, revise, reflect etc). Growth in learning to be self-responsible is nonlinear but can be teased out with scaffolding from a great coach. What ‘light-bulbs’ have been most prominent within your learners? How did you provide the support to make themselves as stimulus?
Thus in closing dear peers, remain curious and never stop sharing, just like the great John Whitmore (hope he is still alive).
Yours in learning - Gunny!
By the way, Gunny and Dale Sidebottom https://energetic.education/ are coming to UK and Ireland in September:
email: coachgunny@craiggunn.org (September UK and Ireland tour of learning 2019)
Again learning peers, I’m Gunny. If you want these Blog Posts to your inbox send me a personal email on address above or other, and, I’ll start compiling an all-important ‘list’.
The HOW (not WHAT) of coaching can be found at the ‘Gunn Engagement’ YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DAC5b2rZHlt8bxXHVgAHg/featured?view_as=subscriber
Please SUBSCRIBE!
To correspond on today’s post, provide discussion guidance, or ask questions that can be used in future posts, connect with me on:
Twitter https://twitter.com/c_gunny73, OR
FaceBook Pages, https://www.facebook.com/coachgunnybrizvegas/
AND https://www.facebook.com/gunnengagement/
OR LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-gunn-b5017a69/
OR Website, www.craiggun.org
If you find the ‘Gunn Engagement - 365 Day Sharing Project’ to be a supportive resource, please consider sharing with your friends and network—again, don’t forget to subscribe to the email list or YouTube channel and again tell your friends and colleagues. ‘Word of mouth’ is still my preferred advertising
‘Gunn Engagement - 365 Day Sharing Project’ was brought to you by, me Gunny, and superior learning vision is curated by my partner in learning Anthony O’Brien of AOB Media, https://www.aobmedia.com.au/.
Of course learn more about my work or how to hire me as a consultant, facilitator, or speaker, through 0431311070.
Finally, “Kids learn teacher NOT subjects!”