Personalized Services

The Center for Academic Innovation offers one-on-one coaching sessions for faculty to support your goals, productivity and overall wellness. Using a combination of instructional design models (e.g. ADDIE, Smith & Ragan, and Dick& Carey) and instructional strategies based on Adult learning theories, our course design consultations begin and end with your learners and learning outcomes in mind. 

In addition to the design of instruction, we can also help you identify tools, and media that will support your learning goals and outcomes.

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What is coaching? 

Shaped by the guiding principles of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), one-on-one coaching sessions focus on reflection and problem-solving. In general, ICF coaching, which exists in diverse professional settings, uses powerful questions and active listening to help people define and prioritize what matters most to them. Coaching sessions can be helpful when you are looking for clarity around a career or work issue, seeking to identify priorities and steps to pursue those priorities (for example, before a sabbatical or a summer break or during a major project, navigating and preparing for leadership roles, working through your writing process, or hoping to create a balanced workflow). 

How does a coaching session differ from a consultation? 

Coaching and consulting share similarities: they are both built around your needs and interests, are one-on-one, are focused on solutions. However, a consultation focuses on resolving a targeted, short-term problem, and consultants typically offer specific advice and guidance. In contrast, while coaches share relevant resources, their main role is to help guide you through your own thinking in an area and help you find your own path to success—whatever that looks like for you. 

Want to know more? 

Sign up for a 30-minute conversation with Jenny Moore (jenny.moore@tamusa.edu) to discuss your goals and how coaching can help. If you think that coaching is a good fit for you after that conversation, we’ll arrange up to three one-hour meetings to pursue the topic.