Coaching as a professional engineering skill
M.H. Arkesteijn (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
R.M. Rooij (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
S. Zijlstra (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
The elective course ‘Didactic Coaching Skills’ in the MSc Architecture, Urbanism, and Building Sciences programme aims to provide a safe practice environment for master’s students to improve their coaching skills while enhancing the educational quality of the bachelor’s course in which the students practice. The experiences of the bachelor students, student tutors, bachelor tutors, coaches, and coordinators were collected and combined to evaluate the success of this elective after it ran for the third time in 2021. The findings show that both aims have been met. All stakeholders enjoy the participation of the master students in the bachelor course and value a more reflective teaching practice for the bachelor tutors and ‘their’ student tutors. The bachelor tutors and coordinators obtain new and valuable learning materials that the student tutors develop as part of their elective, which also leads to renewed interest in the classroom. Attention needs to be given to the divisions of roles and responsibilities between bachelor tutors and student tutors, especially regarding assessment and the potential for the perceived unequal treatment of student groups.
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