Faculty Coaches

Faculty Coaches are university professors, instructors, and staff members at The George Washington University who are committed to the concept of community-oriented healthcare and health education.

What duties are included in the Faculty Coach?
How much time is involved?
What are some benefits of participating in ISCOPES as a Faculty Coach?
If I can't serve as Faculty Coach, how else can I get involved?

What duties are included in the Faculty Coach role?

• Participate in each team meeting to provide guidance and insight into the team project, trainings, and process (1 Coach must be present at each team meeting and each team event/service activity)
• Offer insight/content expertise about personal work experiences
• Monitor student learning and reflection
• Communicate and interact with the Community Coach regularly to provide consistent supervision and guidance to the student team
• Serve as a regular contact for fielding student questions, addressing student concerns, and brainstorming appropriate solutions regarding the ISCOPES project
• Serve as a link to other university resources and expertise
• Meet with students individually to provide guidance and advice regarding tasks and progress on the project, to give timely feedback, and to discuss other topics as needed
• Serve as one of the liaisons between the university and the community organization in tandem with the ISCOPES Leadership Team (ILT)
• Help approve student project proposals in October/November
• Complete an evaluation of each student on the team after each semester using an online scoring rubric
• Complete an online evaluation of coaching experience in ISCOPES after each semester
• Participate in coach trainings/mentoring experiences with other coaches and the ILT (approximately 3/year)
• Communicate regularly with team, other coaches, and ILT
• Help recruit other coaches at GW and at sites

How much time is involved?

• The time commitment is approximately 8 hours per month which includes the bi-monthly team meetings held every other Tuesday morning from 8:00 am -10:00 am, activities/service at the community site, and project planning and communication with the team.

What are some benefits of participating in ISCOPES as a Faculty Coach?

• Interact with graduate health professional students from a variety of disciplines outside of the traditional classroom environment
• Collaborate with Community Coaches who can offer insight into current local realities
• Build partnerships with community organizations
• Receive recognition from colleagues
• Identify opportunities for community-based participatory research (CBPR)
• Mentor future clinical providers and policy makers
• Apply expertise to work in the community
• Rejuvenate interest in and commitment to community health work
• Enhance mentoring skills
• Model professional practices and responsibilities
• Become more familiar with the District and its various communities

If I can't serve as Faculty Coach, how else can I get involved?

• 9/17/2011 – Kickoff/Orientation (9 – 5:30pm)(*note: same weekend as Alumni Weekend)
• 9/20/2011 – Discipline Discovery Portion of the Day (8-10am)
• Wednesday specialty trainings/Lunchtime talks
• 4/17/2012 – End of Year Celebration