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Mentoring and Coaching for Professional Development

Many colleagues regularly take part in mentor training at Lytchett. This may be to fulfill a role in mentoring ITT and GTP trainees, NQTs, colleagues on Lytchett and national leadership programmes and indeed to mentor our own students. During 2009-2010 we have embarked on a programme of coaching with a view to embedding this as a core element of our professional development offering to all colleagues from September 2010.

Over the years we have run various sessions to help colleagues develop their coaching skills.

During 2007 all teachers were trained in the development of the basic skills for mentoring by our AST team. This led to the launch of our annual scheme to mentor vulnerable students within Year 11 to support them as they move towards their GCSE exams.

In 2008 our Plymouth University visiting tutor, Carol Graham, delivered a series of Twilight sessions intended for those who wished to develop their role as a mentor. The aims of this programme were:

  • To develop an understanding of the purpose, tasks and processes of mentoring
  • To identify and practise the skills needed for mentoring
  • To be able to make best use of lesson observation to help them develop professionally
  • To be familiar with the framework for effective mentoring
  • To have an understanding of what constitutes effective feedback
  • To understand how to take learning forward into the life of the school
  • What is mentoring? How does this fit with what we do in school?
  • Mentoring for Professional Development – the tasks and process
    • Session 1 - Working with Adult Learners
    • Session 2 - What does it mean to be a mentor?
      • The skills needed for mentoring
      • Using lesson observation as a tool for Professional Development
      • Learning through giving and receiving feedback
    • Session 3 - Pulling it all together – the framework for an effective mentoring conversation
    • Session 4 - How can we utilise this in school and mentoring in Lytchett Minster School – who, how why and what?

In 2009-2010 we undertook training with Dr Ade Bungay from Budmouth School (and subsequently with Paul Green) to develop our coaching skills. A group of 16 staff have completed the training, which has covered:

  • The skills of coaching
  • Giving feedback to improve performance
  • The coaching conversation
  • Coaching styles
  • Confidentiality
  • The coaching relationship

We propose to offer colleagues in the first five years of their teaching career the opportunity to take part in a coaching programme which focuses on everyday pedagogical issues and allows them time to plan in respect to their career development.

 

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Last modified: 01/06/2010