I provide coaching to educators, families and kids on how to learn, how to think, and how to apply learned skills and strategies to new learning opportunities for lifetime success. As a coach, I am dedicated to facilitating and promoting positive outcomes through application of the AIM Technique.
I can coach online, at your school and in your home if you live in the Los Angeles Area. Coaching services are priced at an hourly rate, dependent on travel distance, frequency of services, goals and individual or group coaching. I prefer weekly scheduling in block periods to allow flexibility for travel and my creative projects.
Coaching with AIM
Families and learners should not be solely dependent on outside educators for their learning. When I coach kids and families, I provide keys to learning that can be transferred into your hands. When I coach educators, I provide strategies for applying AIM in the classroom.
Accelerated Interactive Metacognition
Accelerated learning by targeting specific skills and goals, teaching needed content and promoting transferable knowledge and strategies.
Interactive learning based on socratic inquiry and dialogue, which engages the learner as an empowered activator of their own progress.
Metacognition (the ability to think about one’s own thinking processes) through reflective evaluation of learning styles and methods, and analysis of failures and successes.
Coaching with AIM:
- Promotes intellectually responsible inquiry
- Accelerates reflective thinking so that learners are able to understand their own needs and processes and apply them to future learning opportunities
- Uses probing questions to stimulate discussions and learning
- Teaches learners how to use the power of questions to promote their own learning
- Draws the learner into the discussion and empowers the learner to lead
- Keeps the inquiry focused on targets that promote knowledge and skill growth
- Summarizes what has and what has not been dealt with and/or resolved
- Creates tools that promote independence and transference of skills and strategies.
AIM Promotes Independence
AIM facilitates the development of questioning and metacognitive skills in the learner. In essence, the learner is coached on how to coach themselves and question others, promoting independent use of the technique in all learning opportunities.
AIM is for Families
In life-long learning, there are many educators. AIM coaches can be parents, family members, experts, friends, other learners, teachers, and the individual who learns to be a self-coach. By learning the elements of AIM, anyone can begin the process of coaching to promote learning outcomes.
I perceive myself as a catalyst for learning. When I work with kids, I expect to work with families. I will accelerate learning in specific areas of need. I will promote interaction that facilitates independent application of AIM. I will facilitate metacognition, so that learners can become aware of their own learning styles, errors and strengths.
AIM is for Educators
In schools and classrooms, educators are asked to perform miraculous feats with large numbers of students ranging in learning styles, challenges and strengths. Utilizing the principles of AIM, educators can enhance all of their lessons and activities to promote transferable learning.
I perceive myself as an idea person and a facilitator for your strengths. I can guide you through interactive and collaborative inquiry to problem solve and identify strategies and systems to improve individual learning in your classroom. I can help you create lesson structures, assignments and projects that promote student accountability, skill acquisition and critical thinking. I understand the demands of your job, and will help you develop materials that are effective in multiple content areas.
Review these links to learn more about my educational philosophy:
Key Understandings The AIM Technique Wonder and Wisdom
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