Chapin and Chapin

Academic Coaching is more than tutoring, but less than counseling. As a coach, my overall approach is very skills- and strategy-based. I offer students a "game plan" for success in school. This game plan may be different for each person, depending on age, social development, academic achievement, adaptive skills and time constraints. Sometimes this plan involves direct teaching of subject matter or a key strategy. Other times it involves demonstrating to the student, through guided questioning, what he/she already knows.

It always means taking a view of the student in the context of his/her whole life and setting academic and other goals to meet the presented need(s).