14-19 Workforce Support Programme

CUREE has been using its coaching experience and resources to support the 14-19 Workforce Support programme managed by SSAT for LSIS. We have trained a specialist team at SSAT to use mentoring and coaching skills and techniques in ongoing 14-19 development work.

Importantly, CUREE have crafted and tailored a selection of its powerful Effective Mentoring and Coaching resources for use by 14-19 providers as a way of embedding and sustaining partnership working and applied learning. The tool kit, called Connecting Up*, offers a general introduction to resources that help to ensure that the benefits of coaching skills and techniques feed through into student success. Focussed at an introductory level on ways of planning for and getting the most out of learning conversations, linking practitioner learning and student learning and the benefits of collaborative coaching, the tools can be readily integrated into day to day practice, they also start to support practitioners in making really good use of the coaching opportunities they encounter.

This Diploma Support pack has been specifically contextualised for 14-19 provision including new animations of learning conversations and offers a set of tools and techniques that make specialist and collaborative coaching effective.

Colleagues, schools and colleges interested in accessing the introductory resources should contact their regional 14-19 support and development partner or register on the Diploma Support website

Those interested in embedding these in organisational life systematically, in building a practitioner learning and/or coaching culture should contact Serena Dong to take advantage of the special discounted prices available on the full range of CUREE resources.

*used under licence from CUREE by SSAT. All rights reserved.