Taking Hold - Putting professional learners in charge of their own development through coaching.
Not only will Taking Hold help you to help colleagues develop their skills as professional learners, it also looks at what professional learners can do to make coaching work for themselves. In particular, it includes resources that will help your colleagues to:
- consider what qualities they are looking for in a coach or mentor;
- recognise and reflect on the skills needed for professional learning;
- choose and refine a learning focus;
- use learning agreements to manage differences in power;
- identify when to use closed questions (to focus attention on the professional learner’s needs) and open ones (when the learner doesn’t know what they don’t know);
- learn how to refl ect on what they’ve learned; and
- identify and experiment with professional learning skills in coaching relationships.
While the digital EMAC packs can be navigated intuitively and used alone, we strongly recommend considering accompanying CPDL support to introduce colleagues to the packs and help make best use of their resources.
Included in your EMAC pack purchase is a licence permitting the EMAC resources to be used in the licensed school. If you would like to make use of the suite across multiple schools within a MAT, then you will need a multi-site licence agreement. In this instance we are very happy to talk to you to identify a suitable package and multi-site discount.
