Being

a great teacher is like

being a great coach!


Being a good teacher is like being a good
coach. In both, the coach/teacher motivates,
inspires, builds up, and trains.

In both coaching and teaching, we must get
athletes/students to believe in themselves.

To be effective coaches/teachers, we avoid
using embarrassment and humiliation as
teaching or learning tools.


Great coaches/teachers go beyond their
sport or subject, but also are great life
teachers.

Great coaches/teachers maintain
perspective. They dont let one game, or one
test hold too much weight.

Great coaches/teachers understand their
players/students individuality and response
to different learning and adversity

situations. Similarly, great coaches/teachers take the
time to get to know their athletes/students;
and build appropriate positive relationships.

Great coaching/teaching involves being
flexible. They find ways to teach in different
ways to reach their pupils or climb over
varying obstacles.

Great coaches/teachers are great
communicators. Communication is a two-
way street, where listening goes both ways.



Great coaches/teachers involve their
athletes/students parents, family, or legal
guardians. They are proactive, rather than
reactive, knowing support from home is
important to success.




Great coaches/teachers use
athletes/students, and their own mistakes
and failures as teaching opportunities. They
teach that all make mistakes, but to treat
them as feedback and learn how to correct
them. They also take the time to look ahead
and do their best to prepare their
athletes/students for success.




Great coaches/teachers continually
challenge themselves and their
athletes/students to challenge themselves
and push their own limits.

Great coaches/teachers make learning fun
and interesting. They inspire and motivate
players/students.

Great coaches/teachers create safe learning
environments.



Great coaches/teachers are passionate about
what they do and teach; athletes/students
can tell this.

They also hold themselves to high standards
in order to be a positive role model to their
players and students. As a teacher, coach,
and Christian, we must hold ourselves to
higher expectations and standards, and let
values important to these things influence
they way we act, and how people could view
us.





















 Reflective Statement for Metaphoric Model
SLO: Select/copy one of the four SLOs (in
chart above) here and use Bold and Italics to
set it off from reflection body.
3. Employ leadership practices to optimize
educational and institutional outcomes.
Relevance: How does this assignment
demonstrate your competence with this SLO?
In this metaphoric model, I relate coaching and
teaching. In it, I highlight many important
leadership components necessary to be a great
coach or great teacher.
Significance: Explain the most significant aspect
of your Metaphoric Model that you would likely
share with other professional educators. Justify
your selection.
I think the comparisons to teaching and coaching
are what Id share; especially if I coached a sport,
or was trying to relate to fellow coaches. Many of
the teachers will have likely participated in a sport
growing up, so like having a good teacher, they
likely had a coach they thought fondly of, or left a
positive impact on them.
Growth Mindset: How does your model help you
and your students develop a positive Growth
Mindset?
I think the remarks on learning from failures ties in
with positive Growth Mindset. Learning to look at
mistakes and failures, as feedback to learn from,
and grow from is important to Growth Mindset.
Link to Theory: Describe/explain the
theoretical/research base for your Metaphoric
Model.
One theoretical base is Constructivist Learning
Theory. I strongly believe that we can all learn from
our experiences and work to better ourselves from
them. Similar to playing in a sport or taking a class,
we use our success and failures to better
understand what works and what didnt work, and
continually mold our approach to various
challenges or obstacles that come up.
Successful Learning: How does your Metaphoric
Model support successful/ brain compatible
learning?
One of the ways successful brain learning is
supported, in the emphasis on creating a safe
learning environment. Another way is being a
flexible teacher, this includes thinking of ways to
overcome various challenges, but also be willing to
work with the needs of students. One other way is
supporting involvement and support from home.
Personalized Learning: How does you model
accommodate personalized learning:
Being flexible as a coach or teacher is one way to
accommodate personalized learning. As well,
learning about the athlete or student individually.
This includes learning about how they respond to
different instruction or corrections, as well as who
they are as a person and what important is going
on in their lives.
Reflective Practice:
Reflection is both a retrieval and elaboration
practice. As a means of understanding the
learning process explain how you were able to
retrieve information on teaching/learning and then
elaborate on it as you created your Metaphoric
Model.
In creating this metaphoric model, I wanted to tie in
something I was familiar with, sports, with
teaching. I feel you cannot have teaching without
coaching, and vice versa. So I wanted to thought
about different ways and looked up additional ways
to be successful as one or the other, and found
ways they tied together.