Students are supported by personal coaches throughout the entire education. Coaches are the most regular and personal contacts for the students in the teaching staff. Their work is multifacetted: they make regular studio and classroom visits in order to observe a student’s learning and working attitude, follow their individual development, and check to see if they are understanding and applying tools and strategies to achieve their goals. Coaches hold weekly individual and sometimes group sessions in which they keep and open dialogue and offer guidance to students regarding their personal, academic and artistic development. Coaching overall has an important catalysing and connecting role in the education of the student as being a space of dialogue through which different reference points, tools and challenges may be processed and integrated in with one another and with a student’s personal evolution.
Through coaching students receive support in developing their self-awareness and self-knowledge. They learn to set personal and artistic goals, and reflect upon the process of development in order to set new goals, to improve their ability to function as an individual in a group and to learn to collaborate and communicate. As students advance in their studies, coaches support them in making a personalised study plan,, identifying what they want to focus on and why, and help in formulating a strategy how to achieve said goals. Coaches also guide students in how to construct a useful and meaningful portfolio.
