The Teacher Development in the 21st Century with Coaching Technique.

Abstract

Coaching is a way to develop teaching work or professional that coach and teacher had the same or similar level of knowledge and experience. It is the collaboration by peer who were professional or another professionals who are willing to coach for instruction development. Classroom observation was occurred according to the needs by coach and teacher defined together. They might take turn to observe each other that aimed to reach the goal for learning development or self-professional development and learners’ development as well. To success learners’ quality, coaching could transfer new skills to teachers and school directors lastingly than other methods. About 90 percentage of coached teachers and school directors could memorize the knowledge, the level of knowledge had stood the test of time. Coaching had used variety of supervision strategies to help teacher through self- thinking and self-cognitive process in order to learn work performances and decide to change behaviors for better instruction. That teachers had to improve and develop their instruction with self-directed learning. Moreover, the interaction between coach and teacher was the channel to encourage thinking process, development, and new knowledge creation in themselves. Generally, steps of coaching consists of 1) planning 2) observation 3) coaching 4) analysis 5) evaluation and 6) reflection

                  Coaching could applied to develop teacher’s competency with other professional development methods by focusing on continuous self-development and professional development. Students would achieve learning outcomes when they learnt from teachers who participated coaching activity. There are several types of coaching which are basis on psychological theories, researches, and experiments. The appropriate 21^st century coaching models are Peer Coaching, Collaborative Coaching, Expert Coaching, Mentor Coaching, Instructional Coaching, and Cognitive Coaching.