An aha moment is a glimpse from our true selves they are ways forward into our truth-filled purpose. Facilitating teams to decide on their goals, to guide them towards new aha moments of learning, and to look to each other’s strengths in a concrete action plan, makes educational coaching a diversely rewarding endeavor for both the teachers and the coach. In group settings, aha moments happen through collaborative thinking, and when they do it makes the nuanced work of coaching all worth it. In one-on-one coaching sessions, I have seen teachers resolve their problems in such creative ways. We love being a part of this process when students learn something new, or better yet, discover something about themselves or about a pattern they have which keeps them from moving forward.Īs an academic instructional coach for the last eight years, I also coached teachers as individual educators, in small groups, and as a whole faculty. They would stop, look surprised, and with eyes bulging, say, “I got it!” or “Yes! or “aha.” These moments are often a significant reason teachers teach. When teaching, I saw and heard students have these sudden insights all the time in the classroom. This is precisely what I key in on in my coaching, to bring about eureka moments, these “I have it!” moments, these aha moments.Īs former math, English, and history teacher, I was tremendously excited to see these aha moments in students these moments change a student’s world to some degree. All students and teachers deserve to experience more and explore more, of these moments so they can discover deeper for themselves what direction is best for them to pursue. At some point, don’t we all wish we could shout ‘eureka’ about something? But haven’t we all experienced these aha moments on some level? Maybe not to the degree that affects science or mathematics forever, but still we want to have these types of moments, especially if they directly influence our own lives or affect important decisions we need to make. What Archimedes had was an aha moment, “a moment of sudden insight or discovery” (Dictionary). It became known later as the Archimedes Principle which is still applied in many areas of scientific or mathematical study today, such as by geologists studying the density of rocks and in the medical fields for the density of bones (Live Science). When he entered the bathtub the water overflowed and his scientific mind eventually calculated that the buoyancy and gravity played off one another in a way that could be measured.
He had figured out that the density of the king’s crown was not made of pure gold. He had solved a problem he was thinking about while in the bathtub, but he was too excited to follow proper etiquette as he ran to the king’s palace.
His name was Archimedes (288-212 B.C.) and the word that he shouted through the streets, “eureka,” means, “I have it” in Greek. That man happened to be the single most influential scientist/mathematician of the ancient world. The word ‘eureka’ is famous because one man supposedly forgot to put his clothes on and ran through the streets of Syracuse, Italy a long time ago. (Educational Coach, UNITED STATES) Introduction
A Coaching Model Created by Padraic O’Donnell
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