Designed by experts and road tested every inch of the way by teachers, this inspirational five-pack series will transform your approach to mentoring and coaching
Benefits
- Equips your staff with the skills to develop themselves and others
- Develops staff and leaders' coaching skills very cost effectively
- Develops understanding of the core principles and concepts
- Structured to fit into school/college life with short activities (e.g. for departmental meetings) through to whole school development days
- Provides lots of practical tools, resources and examples to support skills practice
- Works with individuals, groups and whole school
Impacts
School improvement and managing the performance of all staff in an environment of tightening budgets and fewer intermediaries is a challenge that is on the mind of every school leader. In this world you need to know which professional development approach will make the biggest difference, over the long haul and most economically. You have to watch out for the quick fix merchants but you can rely on CUREE to bring you solutions based on good evidence about what really makes a difference .
The Effective Mentoring and Coaching suite of resources was developed following CUREE's research for the National Framework for coaching and mentoring and brings this knowledge into highly practical sets of tools and activities. Usable as individual learning resources or deployed as a development programme across the school, they provide insights, background evidence and a range of activities from 30 minute starter sessions on coaching to full day INSET sessions.
"As CPD leader the pack is extremely useful because it allows me to draw links and ideas for staff, but also to have in mind a larger picture with reference to the School Development Plan."
When finding the time is a problem , these packs enable you to create sustained learning by enabling you to build an integrated programme from bite-sized activities threaded into work you and your colleagues are doing
anyway. Coaching does involve making time for high quality, structured learning conversations rooted in day to day evidence about your pupils' learning experiences –but these packs show you how to manage that creatively and efficiently, reducing precious time away from the classroom and maximising the learning value of time in it.
What you get
Every single resource you need to run sessions for and with colleagues is assembled here from detailed session plans, through video clips and active learning activity hand outs to model answers. The various resources, mostly in PDF format can be shared digitally (or even printed!)
“The CD Rom is a user friendly planning tool with well-prepared resources to use with staff. The exercises are varied and imaginative". [See Note 1 below]
For the cost of one day's supply cover you can access tools to build a sustained in-house CPD programme for colleagues, which will enable you to build, long-term, a mentoring and coaching culture and infrastructure.
The packs are specifically designed to cater for the individual needs of different schools and can be used by CPD leaders, regardless of your previous knowledge and experience. You can use the packs to run workshops and twilight sessions, structure meetings, or just work with colleagues on a one-to-one basis. Some schools are keen to kickstart their Mentoring and Coaching programmes by an input from one of our experienced facilitators. Click here to look at our training programmes which can support your use of the Effective Mentoring and Coaching Suite. Or if you like, our we can support you by running bespoke development sessions and support.
“This is an outstanding resource. I like the flexibility of being able to choose activities not only by type but also by the estimated time that it would take to undertake them". – Ladygrove Park School
Each pack contains a Facilitators Guide and a set original training resources including:
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Animations or video clips based on real-life examples of what typically crops up in everyday exchanges
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Tasks and activities for just about everything -from getting started to debriefing Evidence about mentoring and coaching from research and practice
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Case studies with real life examples of schools that are implementing mentoring and coaching
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An interactive planning tool that will allow you to plan your workshop
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A facilitator's guide to provide accessible answers to all frequently asked questions
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A lively booklet full of hints and tips to help you get underway in using the materials
The menu system helps you access, assemble and retrieve everything you need and are interested in at the click of a mouse in an intuitively supportive way. For any session that you would like to run, whether it is a twenty minute activity at the start of a meeting or a twilight session or INSET day, the packs will help you assemble every handout, video clip, Powerpoint presentation and model answer you need.
The Suite
The Effective Mentoring and Coaching suite contains the following titles:
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Taking hold - putting professional learners in charge of their own development through coaching.
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Doubling up -securing learning and accreditation benefits from mentoring.
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Letting go - developing coaches' skills in increasing professional learners' independence.
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Pulling through - developing mentors' ability to support professional learners in drawing on evidence and expertise.
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Pulling together -ensuring the right mix of challenge and support in co-coaching.
More Information
If you aren't sure which pack suits you, give us a call for more guidance (024 7652 4036) or download the Effective Mentoring and Coaching suite flyer
. The packs have been designed to be cost effective for schools, cutting the cost of CPD by allowing in-house development programmes to be based on quality resources. Click here for full pricing information for schools, colleges and other educational establishments. Organisations interested in volume licensing e.g. Local Authorities, High Education Institutes and Training Organisations should contact Paul Crisp (paul.crisp@curee.co.uk) or info@curee.co.uk
NOTE 1 - In response to customer demand and to lower our environmental impact, CUREE no longer distributes EMAC Packs on physical media. The resource pack file set is generally too large for most emailing systems so our default distribution method is to upload the licensed pack resources to a cloud drive sharing the unique access path with you. You can download the files and install them on an individual PC or a network drive (note, NOT a web-hosted file system
