Mentoring and Coaching

This programme is taught at University campus locations in Stoke, Stafford and Lichfield. It can also be based in a school or college in order to support staff carrying out key tasks for themselves and their organisations where numbers allow.

If you already have some Masters level credits (from your PGCE or other courses for example) you may be able to fast track part of the award.

This award is a Postgraduate Certificate. The award is designed to help you with your day-to-day work teaching, supporting other teachers in improving their work and leading and managing in schools, colleges, community settings, workplaces, local authorities and other education settings.

The Postgraduate Certificate in Mentoring and Coaching will provide an overview of the issues involved in mentoring in education settings before proceeding to explore the components of mentoring, in particular investigating key concepts of mentoring and associated notions of strategic planning, practical skills and problem solving. It will consider the importance of placing mentoring and professional development within a holistic framework using concepts of the education setting as a learning organisation. The module will of course require participants to engage in and report on mentoring trainee, newly qualified or experienced education professionals.

Our guiding principle is to place learning in the workplace at the heart of the programme. This means that what you learn in the workplace is just as important as the formal study you undertake with us. We work closely with employers to ensure that the programme is relevant and responsive to the complex demands of education contexts.

We value the knowledge that you have already gained through your prior experience and you are encouraged to contribute your ideas and experiences in taught sessions.

Once you have your Postgraduate Certificate award, you will have the opportunity to progress to our MA Education awards, aimed at helping you develop your capabilities even further.

• Postgraduate Certificate Leading Enterprise Learning
• MA Education
• MA Education (Educational Leadership)
• MA Education (Learning and Assessment)
• MA Education (Community Learning)

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