What is Academic Coaching?
Developing the Skills and Strategies to Achieve Your Academic Goals
Students navigating through academia are assessed on two many areas: hard and soft skills. Hard skills refer to technical abilities, such as the math topics covered in class. Soft skills are the set of skills and abilities that help navigate towards and achieve goals.
How can coaching impact a student's performance in academics?
Coaching combines both teaching and applied practice to help individuals develop strategies and approaches that can help them achieve their academic goals.
- Executive Functions in Academia: Development of executive function strategies in academic settings
- Student Focused Skills/Strategies: Skills that assist in core academic areas including studying, reading, writing, test-taking
- Tutoring: Our coaches also assist students with tutoring – providing instruction in a way that plays to a student’s learning style
- Metacognition: Learning more about how your brain works, so that strategies developed work for you in academic contexts
- Teaching and Development of Strategies: Explicitly teaching both hard and soft skills and strategies, while also helping you learn to develop your own
- Problem Solving: Through our RISE model, we help you work through the use of strategies, adapting them until it is working for you
- Accountability: Once strategies are found that work, we then help you maintain them – knowing what to do is only half the battle, actually using them is the other half
How can academic coaching help me specifically?
We follow a proven process to make sure that coaching is designed to meet your wants and needs:
- Consultation Process: We have a consultation where we help identify individual goals and challenges. During this consult, our team helps you identify which executive functions are impacting your ability to succeed.
- Coach Matching: We match you with a coach based on the coaching plan. This matching takes into account factors like: who you will work best with, who has the best experience to support you, and who will be able to meet all your other needs and wants.
- Real World Applications: Our supports are adapted to your current responsibilities. Since your responsibilities change, we assist in prioritizing what is most important to be working on at each coaching session.
- Accountability and Maintenance: While we respond to your changing needs, we also assist in keeping you on task: not giving up on goals just because they are too hard.
- Personally Designed Coaching Schedules: New Frontiers offers individualized coaching schedules. We run sessions in 15 minute intervals, meaning you can have three 15-minute sessions, or one 30-minute and one 15-minute spread throughout a week. We also provide texting check ins depending on the individual needs. Each individual’s schedule is unique and adapts to the individual’s needs.
- Proven Approaches: Our RASP and RISE models focus on individual challenges to promote growth
- Pedagogy: Use of Explicit Instruction and Cognitive Modeling to assist in the growth and development of skills and strategies that work for you.
Who are the coaches?
- Seasoned professionals who bring a wide variety of experience to the table. Coaches have unique specialized training, educational backgrounds, and specific skill areas of expertise
- Clients come to us with very specific needs and goals. We put special care in matching clients with the ideal coach who can meet those specific needs
- Coaches are flexible and are happy to work around a client's busy schedule
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