PGCert Coaching & Mentoring for Ed Practitioners

More than an academic programme. We are a community of education practitioners who focus on mentoring and coaching. Part of @CollectivEd1. Led by @DrRLofthouse.

[PGCert Coaching & Mentoring for Ed Practitioners @PgcertEd]

This is our new account for the PGCert in Coaching & Mentoring for Education Practitioners. First cohort starts in 2019. Info here https://t.co/cvog4Ly5jU. Taught over 3 weekends with one per term. Recruiting until October & starts November.

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

***New blogpost*** Action Learning Sets: a pedagogic and professional tool. Drawing on work with the ⁦@CollectivED1⁩ ⁦@PgcertEd⁩ group at ⁦@EducationLBU⁩ ⁦@KaySocLearn⁩ https://t.co/Gi8zHo32lj

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

Next evening session of the @PgcertEd Coaching and Mentoring for Education Practitioners this evening. A chance to focus minds and share development plans. Always good to work across education sectors. @CollectivED1 @EducationLBU

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

Decision made. 21-22 @PgcertEd Coaching & Mentoring for Education Practitioners at @EducationLBU. We will teach online via synchronous sessions (3 Saturdays 10-5pm & 8 Mondays 7-9pm). Easing ourselves out of the pandemic & allowing wider access to the course. Places limited to 16

[Dr Kay Sidebottom 🌿🕷⛸ @KaySocLearn]

Really interesting discussions @PgcertEd about the body, matter, and atmospheres in relation to coaching and mentoring...

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

Thanks to @KaySocLearn and the @PgcertEd students for a good day online learning, sharing and supporting each other. Coaching and mentoring is our focus. Better education is our purpose. They are the potential. @CollectivED1 @EducationLBU

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

I’ve finished reading and assessing the portfolios from the first cohort of @PgcertEd. They were probably the most professionally satisfying and stimulating assignments that I’ve ever had the pleasure to read. I’m hopeful that @CollectivED1 working papers will follow to share.

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

Today @KaySocLearn and I teach the @PgcertEd. Starting with research on professional conversations. Lots of peer review of f coaching & mentoring rationales & critical incidents analyses. We are also talking post-humanism & activity theory. Finishing with a Thinking Council.

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

Wow. What a fab new @PgcertEd group. I was anxious about having to design and lead this online as I love F2F teaching but we’ve had a great kick off day. Thanks to @KaySocLearn for co-facilitating and to the students for being such a joy to work with. My weekend starts now.

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

To get up to date info on this @PgcertEd please email [email protected]

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

You can now register for our online taught @PgcertEd. Running Jan to July 2021 over 3 Saturdays & 8 Monday evenings. It’s been fabulous to work with educators from EYs through to FE this year. Our focus is coaching, mentoring, leading CPD, developing professional collaboration.

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

Thrilled to be welcoming @PgcertEd students to our #CollectivEdFellowship Joining @PaulaAyliffe & @Daniel_s_Duke are @SuzanneCulshaw @Stef_Wilkinson @venkatesh_ash @earlyed_cathy @CoachingMea @MissIsNowMyName. Their practices are so rich & worth celebrating. Congratulations.

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

Just a quick shout out to @PaulaAyliffe this morning who must be exhausted (honestly I was just listening to all that she’s doing as a primary co-head) but whose cheerful and insightful reflections on the progress she’s making on the @PgcertEd was great to hear.

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

Great to have caught up with @venkatesh_ash this week who has been using his @PgcertEd to reflect on the future of support for headteachers, and starting to map out more blended models which outlive the pandemic.

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

Great to chat to @Daniel_s_Duke about life in lockdown, balancing FE work & family roles & staying reflective about both. That provides an essential foundation for realistic developments in his ongoing role as a coach. The pandemic has provided new ways of approaching @PgcertEd

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

Good to catch up with @historycarlin to check in on how she’s faring with while supporting students & colleagues during the pandemic. Really interesting ideas emerging for her @PgcertEd around adult communication and how it can be understood & reframed for positive change.

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

This is lovely - a short and reflective video. @MargaretBarr1 from @gcieducation talking about coaching & the thinking environment. @PgcertEd @KaySocLearn @LouMycroft @CollectivED1

[CollectivED @CollectivED1]

This will be interesting to many @CollectivED1 and @PgcertEd followers.

[PGCert Coaching & Mentoring for Ed Practitioners @PgcertEd]

‘I would be a completely different teacher if I had been with a different mentor’: Ways in which educative mentoring matters as novices learn to teach: Professional Development in Education: Vol 46, No 2 https://t.co/wTAnFnd6zs

[AshVenkatesh @venkatesh_ash]

@DrRLofthouse @PaulaAyliffe @PgcertEd I have found it an excellent opportunity to share and discuss ideas with a really diverse group of fellow professionals, from Early Years to HE