Certificate of Achievement
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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