Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:38
This course is designed to extend knowledge and understanding and enhance practice in mentoring and coaching. Participants will develop a critical understanding of the theoretical concepts and principles underpinning approaches to mentoring and coaching; reflect critically on their own attitudinal qualities, interpersonal and communication skills when in role as a mentor and mentee; through skills development, enhance their skills when involved in mentoring and coaching contexts; contribute to enhancing the quality of provision within their learning community through undertaking mentoring and coaching related activities and reflect on the impact of their role on self and others.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Session | First Sub Session | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Old Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Ø Core content for all target groups:
Ø Learning communities, collegiality and professionalism
Ø Models of mentoring and coaching
Ø Mentoring and coaching as a form of professional learning
Ø Mentoring and induction - principle-centred induction and procedural-led induction;
Ø Mentoring and coaching relationships
Ø Roles eg Mentoring and coaching activities eg
§ coach - relationship building - observation
§ role model - listening and reflecting - questioning
§ advocate - clarifying - formative feedback
§ critical friend - dialogic challenge - target setting
§ acculturate - summarising - action planning
§ goal setting
§ reflecting
§ challenging
There is overlap in terms of the roles/skills deployed by mentors and coaches.
Ø The process of mentoring and coaching - different stages: different skills;
· frameworks for differentiating support strategies;
Ø Skills, qualities and attributes
§ values and attitudinal qualities
§ interpersonal skills the development of essential supporting mentoring and coaching skills including active listening, paraphrasing, clarifying, hypothesising reflection of feeling, feedback,
Ø Analysis of personal and workplace based practice on mentoring and coaching
Ø Some of the content will be generic for all participants and other content will be contextualised/extended to suit the specific professional contexts of course participants eg:
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
1st attempt: 1 written summative assignment (equivalent to 6,000 words) 100% with supporting portfolio evidence
This will take the form of a critical reflection on/professional enquiry into models of mentoring and coaching and reflection on own professional experiences/practice in mentoring
Resit: One opportunity to resubmit the 6,000 word assignment
There are no assessments for this course.
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