School improvement and managing the performance of all staff are high on every school's agenda. There is considerable evidence that effective mentoring and coaching are powerful learning tools to help you with both of these issues. But there's a lot of superficial practice about and CUREE is not about superficial activity. Which is why we have developed 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."
But even if you believe in the impact of coaching and mentoring or have seen that it is part of the post Threshold teachers professional standards, or even heard that it will be part of the new Masters in Teaching and Learning, how do 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. These 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
For testimonials on some of the packs, click here.
