An educational coach supports, challenges and empowers others to develop their capacities as teachers. Coaching is a force for change and improvement in schools. Research identifies it as one of the best forms of professional development available: individualised, responsive and intensive.

This course will give you the opportunity to explore and practise a repertoire of skills and techniques applicable to the educational leadership of classroom teachers. Through a series of engaging and interactive workshop sessions, you will be able to apply what you learn immediately in your professional roles, particularly where you are engaged in the professional development of others.

The course focuses on the coaching conversation, which is the means whereby effective coaches build teacher capacity and enrich classroom practice. It equips you, as an experienced teacher, with the skills and approaches of the highly effective coach, to enable you to support the pedagogical development of your colleagues.