Certificate of Achievement

Sam BG

has completed the following course:

Getting ready to mentor teachers and trainers in Further Education

Education and Training Foundation (ETF)

This online course explored: the benefits of mentoring for mentors, mentees and organisations, the principles of developmental mentoring, mentoring skills, models, culture, context and boundaries.

3 weeks, 2 hours per week

Dr Katerina Kolyva

Chief Executive Officer

Education and Training Foundation (ETF)

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Describe the characteristics of mentoring and coaching, as used in ETF programmes
  • Explore the role and purpose of mentoring in professional development for teachers and trainers in the Further Education sector
  • Compare models of, and tools for, mentoring
  • Develop a mentoring action plan

Syllabus

Week 1 – Exploring mentoring

  • Understanding mentoring and coaching in Further Education
  • How mentors use mentoring
  • Benefits for mentees, mentors and organisations
  • Potential pitfalls and judgementoring
  • Developmental mentoring
  • The skills and competence areas for a mentor
  • Self-assessment of changes needed
  • An example mentoring session

Week 2 – Models and frameworks for mentoring

  • An overview of tools available for mentoring
  • The GROW model: Goals, Reality, Options, Will or Way forward
  • Questioning and the GROW model
  • The ONSIDE framework for developmental mentoring
  • The OSKAR model: Outcomes, Scaling, Know-how, Affirm and action, Review
  • Scaling techniques to better understand the mentees perceptions and awareness
  • The CLEAR model: Contracting, Listening, Exploring, Action, Review
  • How to use contracting in mentoring
  • A summary of the mentoring models and the ONSIDE framework

Week 3 - Wider implications and planning

  • Cultural and contextual considerations
  • Setting boundaries in mentoring
  • Inclusion in a mentoring situation
  • Equality and diversity in mentoring
  • Ways of communicating, listening skills, bias and non-verbal cues
  • Putting mentoring ideas into practice
  • Example case studies
  • Action planning and reflection

Issued on 8th December 2021

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Free online course:

Getting ready to mentor teachers and trainers in Further Education

Education and Training Foundation (ETF)