Christina Meline introduces Coaching Styles and Sentence Stems, a mentoring resource for instructional coaches and mentor teachers available on the Team Meline ECT Hub.
Mentor Teachers
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Before strategies, sentence stems, or coaching moves — it starts with reflection. The Coaching Styles and Sentence Stems resource invites mentor teachers, coaches, and supervisors to pause and consider how they're currently showing up for the early career educators in their care.
Inside, you'll find four coaching styles — directive, facilitative, collaborative, and transformational — along with practical questions and sentence stems you can reach for in real mentoring conversations. Think of it as a springboard: something to keep nearby before an observation debrief, a planning conversation, or any moment when you want to enter the room with a little more intention.
Strong roots in coaching grow stronger teachers.
Coaching Styles & Sentence Stems
Ready to Go Deeper?
The Cultivate: Building Confidence as an Early Career Teacher course and companion workbook weren't just built for new teachers — they're a powerful resource for anyone walking alongside them.
As a mentor teacher, instructional coach, or induction program leader, Cultivate gives you a firsthand look at the challenges, reflections, and growth edges your early career teachers are navigating. With over 20 practical tools embedded throughout, it can serve as a shared framework for mentoring conversations, induction programming, and targeted coaching support.
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