Coaching introducing within slovakian grammar schools (Project EduCoach)

Abstract

Paper presents the main thesis, terminology, methodology and the first results of the project EduCoach (SR). The project is dedicated to implement the coaching culture at any high school in Slovakia. Pilot results of the project confirm the coaching as such a process of selfunderstanding, in which coached person becomes aware of previously untapped resources of imagination, productivity and leadership. Importance of teens-coaching and coaching of those, who are responsible for teens, has been also proved in praxis at condition of a high school. The main outcome of the project is seen in building of a very strong partnership between a coach and a coached person, which may foster the coached person on his/her personal way towards mental maturation and fulfilment of his/her professional dispositions and competences earlier than he/she would have been start to work.