Effective mentoring and coaching suite

Maximising the performance of all staff to achieve excellent outcomes for their learners and continuously developing the organisation are high on the agenda of every school and college. There is considerable evidence that effective mentoring and coaching are powerful learning tools to help you achieve this, particularly in an environment where there is likely to be less prescription about teaching - you need to learn from the best and share that practice. At the same time you might want to be reassured that your development activities are based on sound evidence about what works. This is where CUREE can help. We have developed coaching and mentoring resource packs for CPD leaders which are all based on rigorous evidence about what really works for teachers and for pupils.

"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."

Coaching forms a key part of the post Threshold teachers’ professional standards and is highly valuable for your whole school staff but how might you go about getting the right foundation of development in place for your school? You could send a couple of your managers on coaching training days to help them improve their skills in these key areas, but all the evidence suggests that without sustained, complementary in-house collaborative activity, tailored to the needs of the whole school this isn’t likely to feed through into benefits for young people. The CUREE suite of resource packs will help you to run in-house programmes to meet your needs and those of your colleagues.

If finding the time for CPD is a problem in your school, these packs will 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.

Every single resource you need to run sessions for and with colleagues is assembled here from detailed session plans, through video clips and learning activities to hand outs and model answers. The resources simply require printing and photocopying!

"The CD Rom is a user friendly planning tool with well-prepared resources to use with staff. The exercises are varied and imaginative."

For the cost of one day's supply cover you will have the 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 experience 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.

“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

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If you are a small school we recognise the specific challenges that you face and have developed a package of support and materials specifically for you.

For Training Schools who have a responsibility for CPD across a cluster of schools we have also designed and run specific programmes and have discounted prices for accessing multiple packs which can forma sustainably element of your outreach work.

Where there are schools with high proportions of Trainee Teachers, GTP teachers or NQTs we have packages of development to enhance both the professional learning skills of those new to the profession and revitalise the skills of  experienced mentors.

For more information on any of these please contact maura.murray@curee.co.uk.