Some thoughts on being an Apple Learning Coach

An Apple Learning Coach values building relationships and trusts with co-workers. Being a coach is more than just showing your peers how to add technology to their lessons. A coach needs to listen to their peers and see what goals they have that the coach can help them achieve. The coach is there as a partner, a mentor, a guide, and sometimes a push out of the comfort zone we all teach in. It cannot be stressed enough that people, relationships, and trust have priority over technology. Once that relationship and trust have been established and built, you commonly use the tools and lessons found in the Everyone Can Create, and Everyone Can Code curriculums to start a peer on their journey of engaged teaching and learning. Why those two curriculums? Both have projects that have been proven to be successful. You want to pick more than just a random project out of the curriculum. You want to see what learning objectives the teacher is trying to achieve, and then the two of you select a project that best matches the learning goals.

-jeremy