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Adult Mentoring: Frameworks & Scaffolds

Give your mentoring conversations a clear structure, so the person you're supporting finds the real problem and a plan they own.

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  • 0.5 CPD hours
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About this course

It's tempting, when a colleague brings you a problem, to hand them the answer. Often, though, the problem they bring isn't the real one.

The experienced school leader who teaches this course once thought his difficulty was getting a class to line up outside his room. Talking it through, he realised his real worry was looking foolish in front of colleagues. The framework here, based on Egan's skilled helper model, gets you to that kind of moment. Your mentee tells their story in their own words, you challenge their thinking and explore options together, and they leave with an action plan they own.

Along the way you'll practise open questions and reflective listening, and learn to build more than one explanation for what's going on before settling on one. The same approach works when you mentor pupils.

Modules

6 modules
  1. 1Introduction3 min
  2. 2Definition of mentoring6 min
  3. 3Creating a hypothesis7 min
  4. 4Telling the story5 min
  5. 5Exploring the options6 min
  6. 6Action planning4 min

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