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Something Always Works: A Self-Study Of Strengths-Based Coaching In Supervision, Steven Haberlin

Journal of Educational Supervision

Mentoring remains a major component of teacher education programs. Moving away from the traditional apprenticeship model, teacher educators have begun to adopt more affirming coaching practices that nurture the strengths and inner qualities of pre-service teachers. In this self-study, the researcher—an emerging teacher educator hoping to enhance his practice—investigated ways to help pre-service teachers discover and develop their individual strengths and how strength-based coaching might impact his beliefs and assumptions. Data were drawn from interviews,focus groups, lesson plans, and researcher journal reflections as well as participant-created written responses and illustrations. Themes were developed using content analysis. Findings involved the teacher …