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6 Learning Hours • In-Person or Online
Essential Skills for Mentors
mentoring and coaching, develop the conversational stances that best support mentee growth and expand your capacity to share expertise in ways that build initiative and responsibility rather than dependence. What You Will Gain: • A clear understanding of high-quality mentoring and how it differs from, and connects to, coaching • Practical conversational skills and frameworks to support and challenge the growth of mentees • The confidence to share knowledge and expertise in ways that empower rather than direct • Enhanced capacity to support succession planning, teacher induction and leadership development in your school
Move beyond telling and become the mentor your colleagues and mentees deserve.
Mentoring is one of the most valued forms of professional support in education, and one of the most commonly misunderstood. Too often it defaults to advice-giving and direction, leaving mentees dependent rather than empowered. High-quality mentoring requires something different: the skill to draw on experience and expertise while keeping the mentee at the centre of every conversation. Drawing on the three elements of effective mentoring and coaching, Essential Skills for Mentors equips mentors and leaders with the skills, knowledge and strategies to develop and empower their mentees. You will explore the similarities and differences between
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