What is Academic Coaching?

Academic Coaching at Grand International Edu Group (GIEG) exists to address the holistic needs of postgraduate students that impact their academic success. Academic Coaches helps students assess where they are now and articulate where they want to be going forward. Coaches help students identify their best next actions steps and how to connect those steps with their long-term goals and core values. Academic Coaching empowers students to engage intellectually, leverage curiosity, and explore creative solutions to their own unique challenges.

Students participating in Academic Coaching will:

• • Identify their strengths and barriers to develop evidence-based strategies to reach their goals
  • Adopt self-directed behaviors that develop accountability and a mindset allowing for decisive action
  • Identify actionable next steps congruent with their long-term goals and core values
  • Feel empowered and equipped to effectively manage future challenges
  • Foster a sense of belonging and understand the unique value they bring to the community

Academic Coaching Topics

Academic Coaches will tailor the topics to meet students’ needs and goals. However, common issues that our coaches help students address include the following:

• • Time Management
  • Effective Notetaking and Reading Strategies
  • Motivation
  • Test Taking Skills
  • Effective Resource Utilization
  • Wellness and Balancing Priorities
  • Professional Development

How does it work?

Postgraduate programs, whether Masters or PhD will challenge you in ways that are very different from the undergraduate experience. Common challenges include managing research and coursework, preparing for proposal defence and viva, tackling and solving a complex research project, clarifying research direction and issues, planning and writing thesis or dissertation.

At GIEG, we provide you with the necessary assistance and guidance so that your postgraduate journey is more rewarding and productive. Our Academic Coach will engage you in an understanding conversation that elicits your own insights and builds on your strengths. We will also offer effective suggestions for you to try.

If you would like to meet regularly with a coach, we can help you build your new insights and strategies into habitual ways of thinking and approaching your work.

• • Develop individualized study habits, test-taking skills, and plans for assignments
  • Enhance broader academic skills including time management, course selection, and much more
  • Discuss and explore self-care and wellness strategies that will help them to stay healthy
  • Discuss academic choices such as concentration selection, working with an advisor and faculty members
  • Reflect upon their academic goals, personal aspirations, and values as they relate to their academic experience
  • Stay motivated and focused on their academic and extracurricular activities