Essential Guide to Coaching and Mentoring, The: Practical Skills for Teachers (The Essential Guides) - Softcover

Tolhurst, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408241722 ISBN 13: 9781408241721

Publisher: Longman, 2010

Synopsis

Looking for new ways to use coaching and mentoring techniques for the benefit of staff and pupils in your school?  

The Essential Guide to Coaching and Mentoring is the resource you need to help build a powerful leadership team in your school through accessible and practical strategies that really bring the principles of coaching to life for teaching professionals at every level.

This second edition of Judith Tolhurst’s coaching manual provides a lively introduction to using coaching with both staff and pupils in schools and will become a powerful learning tool to help build the leadership capacity of your staff and help your pupils become confident learners.  

Steeped in real school settings and using current examples, case studies and coaching conversations, this book can advance your professional development by:

• equipping you with the tools you need to help the staff you lead or for use with the children you are working with
• honing your interpersonal skills and bringing elements of coaching everyday conversations
• encouraging reflection on your personal learning and progress
• supporting staff and children in your school to grow through the use of coaching and mentoring techniques

 

About this title

Product Description

The Essential Guide to Coaching and Mentoring Rev. ed. of: Coaching for schools: New York: Pearson Education, c2006. Full description

Review

"This is the most practical coaching and mentoring book I have read - it stands out simply because it is built on solid academic foundations, yet remains focused on the needs of busy professionals in realistic school contexts. An excellent read which has reignited my interest in coaching and mentoring." --Marc Bowen, Deputy Head

"Judith Tolhurst has written a highly practical and supportive guide to coaching for the full range of educational professionals in schools. She provides detailed, realistic and helpful examples of effective practice; clear and authoritative guidance and very useful and engaging case studies. The guide is helpfully structured, clearly written and very helpfully presented. Coaching is a proven high impact strategy to enable change and effective learning, this guide is a powerful resource to support its widespread and successful application."
--John West-Burnham, St Mary's University College

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1408241722
• ISBN 13: 9781408241721
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288