Target audience: Leaders

A foundation of the Curriculum for Wales is enabling schools to design their own curriculum and accompanying assessment. Coaching is a powerful tool educational leaders can use to empower staff to devise new ideas and creative solutions. Leaders often believe they are coaching but when confronted with an illustration of authentic coaching become aware that their approach is solution centric. Coaching provides leaders with skills that move their routine from the provision of solutions through to challenging staff to think for themselves, building confidence and self-esteem and creating inspired, empowered, and engaged employees, so essential if this nation is to successfully realise the promise of the Curriculum for Wales.

At the end of the programme the delegate will:

• Know what it takes to be an effective coach and mentor.

• Understand the role and responsibilities of effective coaches and mentors.

• Learn how to use recognised coaching and mentoring models, and the tools and techniques to support it.

• Put your new skills into practice and carry out supervised coaching & mentoring sessions as part of the programme.

Event details:

Six x 3.5 hour distance learning training sessions in cohorts of 20 delegates.

For more information pleas contact:

Rob Phillips Interim Lead for Leadership phillipsr145@hwbcymru.net

Target audience: Induction Mentors (IMs) / External Mentors (Ems) / External Verifiers (EVs)

All Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) are supported by a mentor who observes the NQT and works with the external verifier (EV) to ensure the NQT receives high-quality mentoring and will undertake the final assessment of the NQT.  This Professional Learning has been co-constructed through a cross regional National programme and is available to all Mentors, and Verifiers.

• Share information on the statutory requirements of the Induction Process for NQTs.

• Clarify the roles and responsibilities of the Induction Mentor, External Mentor and External Verifier.

• Provide training to support the development of mentoring skills via induction Mentor Development Programme (IMDP).

• Identify aspects of good practice for mentoring.

Event details:

½ day of National Training for Induction Mentors/External Mentors provided by the Regional Cross Consortia Group delivered in Autumn term.

3 x ½ day Induction Mentor Development Programme (IMDP) provided by the Regional Cross Consortia Group delivered in Autumn/Spring term for Induction Mentors (IM) /External Mentors (EM).

½ day of National Training for External Verifiers (EV) provided by the Regional Cross Consortia Group delivered in Autumn term.

For dates and more information click here:

EV/EM Professional Learning Offer 2023-2024

IM National Professional Learning Offer 2023-2024

Carol Jeffreys Induction for Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) carol.jeffreys@partneriaeth.cymru