Continuing Professional Development

Effective Mentoring & Coaching Suite Flyer

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Designed by experts and road tested every inch of the way by teachers, this inspirational six-pack series will transform your approach to mentoring and coaching. As CPD co-ordinators you will fi nd the packs an invaluable resource. They will help you enthuse and inspire colleagues and equip them with the skills they need for professional learning - to develop their practice, to enhance their subject expertise – or to tackle those tricky learning or behavioural problems in their classrooms. It will also help your school, because you will be building mentoring and coaching skills amongst your colleagues. This will help the school keep up to date with new initiatives such as performance management, and develop a successfully tried and tested approach to school improvement through changes which aren’t forced. You’ll find the six Effective Mentoring and Coaching packs full of ideas for building ownership through collaboration and encouraging teachers to interpret and adapt new approaches for their own particular pupils or subject.

Continuing Professional Development: Key Themes and Strategies

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CUREE was commissioned by GTC to undertake a qualitative exploration of the strategic planning and evaluation of continuing professional development (CPD) at school level.

In commissioning this study the GTC wanted to explore how and by whom decisions are made in schools about CPD needs and priorities, and subsequent resource allocation and evaluation; and to what extent this appears to be a strategic or an ad hoc decision-making process. As a result of this, GTC hoped to identify a menu of options and levers for improving the ‘demand side’ of CPD provision, particularly in its strategic planning and evaluation at school level.

Mentoring and Coaching Capacity Building Project. Interim Report

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Final report

Appendices:

  1. Schedule of project activity.
  2. Policy makers' seminar July 2004 summary report
  3. LEA CPD advisers seminars summary report
  4. Mentoring and coaching practitioner consultation seminars summary report
  5. Mentoring and coaching: Consulting for capacity building consultation document
  6. Mentoring and coaching descriptors
  7. Activities circles
  8. Mentoring and coaching for leadership model
  9. ICSEI symposium proposal
  10. Case study framework

Mentoring and coaching: case studies

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  • Mentoring & Coaching Case Studies: Some examples of current practice in English schools.
  • Blaise Primary School, Bristol: Peer coaching - getting started.
  • Hayes Park Primary School: Coaching for problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Newall Green School, Manchester: Learning from observation: Peer Coaching.
  • Oakdale School (Poole): Mentoring in ITE.
  • Ravens Wood School: A whole-school approach to coaching.
  • The Sweyne Park School, Rayleigh, Essex: Integrating coaching, mentoring and performance management.