Connecticut uses coaching as part of the OEC Birth to Three system and our Quality Improvement Supports work. Birth to Three utilizes a model designed by authors Dathan Rush and M’Lisa Shelden. OEC partnered with other Connecticut entities to produce the video Foundations of Coaching to highlight specific processes coaches can use regardless of the coaching setting. The OEC’s Quality Improvement Support contractors utilize coaching strategies from various sources and our Connecticut Core Knowledge and Competency Framework for Technical Assistance Providers.
So how does this new Coaching and Mentoring Framework differ from what is already available?
The Coaching and Mentoring Framework:
- identifies a set of foundational skills, knowledge and dispositional characteristics that can support your ability to work with any coaching or mentoring model,
- adds mentoring as a role and it clarifies the similarities and differences between coaching, and
- is designed to support individual skill-building in many roles, such as higher education faculty, program leaders, teaching staff, family home child care providers, technical assistance providers, etc.
Explore this new Framework to learn more about the similarities and differences between roles and how the relationship coaches and mentors build with their partners fosters human growth and development as well as professional identity.
How do professionals use the CKCs and the Coaching & Mentoring Framework?
- Inform teaching, training, coaching and mentoring practices through intentional reflection
- Guide professional learning design to keep current with practice across disciplines and roles
- Inform policy about workforce development
- Provide OEC and other agencies with language about shared workforce goals to collaborate with higher education institutions and professional learning designers
- Provide a foundation for approved professional learning connected to OEC Registry training hours
- Build upon evidence-based models