When you're taught by professors, you become a professor, not a coach. In his college professor life Dr. Al had to invent his own mixture of coaching techniques blended with professing using a knowledge-driven pedagogy
 

In his first teaching year at Beloit College (1970) Dr. Al met up with a freshman, straight-A student, Gail Lynn Woods.  Gail was getting "A"s in every course plus perfect scores on almost all exams. How could Dr. Al raise the bar for this talented person?
 

"She signed up for my Memory & Cognition course and after the first class I asked her to see me in my office. When she came in, I opened up my grade book, pointed to her name in it, and in the place for her final grade I wrote a large "A"  next to her name.

I told her that she was getting the "A" no matter how little or how much she did.  It was her responsibility to decide just how she was going to earn the grade and then do it.  I was happy to coach her whenever she asked for help. 

Years later she told me that she'd never worked so hard in a course and her performance indeed reflected high achievement that I never would have gotten following standard procedures."