posted on 2010-03-01, 00:00authored byRay Bareiss, Martin Radley
At Carnegie Mellon’s Silicon Valley campus we employ a learn by-
doing educational approach in which nearly all student
learning, and thus instruction, is in the context of realistic, team based
projects. Consequently, we have adopted coaching as our
predominant teaching model.
In this paper we reflect on our experience with the nature of
teaching by coaching using a framework derived from Cognitive
Apprenticeship, and explain how we employ the techniques it
suggests in our teaching. We also discuss a range of instructional
tensions that arise in teaching by coaching and present a survey of
student attitudes regarding the effectiveness of our approach.