Coaching training and professional learning with Learning Cultures

Transition from primary to secondary school remains one of the areas where it is difficult to create the right curriculum bridges that ensure there is seamless and sequential learning from year 6 into year 7 and beyond. There is a well researched and slightly shocking statistic that there is up to a 40% average dip in performance of pupils at the end of year 7. Whilst this can be for many reasons and some inevitable it is still something that needs addressing. Here at Learning Cultures we deliver a training workshop for those planning and delivering the year 7 and key stage 3 curriculum. It has some innovative ideas and will provide those who attend with a wealth of materials, resources and practical ideas to transform your transition policy or strategy. Crossing the Transition Bridge - Creating seamless learning from key stage 2 to 3.

In this podcast Glynis Frater, Director of Coaching at Learning Cultures talks to Sandra Stansfield about our very successful Certificate in Coaching Competence Programme. Glynis and Sandra worked together on developing this programme following a discussion as to what we felt was the best way forward for leaders, managers and teachers to develop as coaches specifically in an education setting. Sandra's considerable knowledge and experience of coaching and leading the development of a coaching culture in practice have gone into the designing of this programme. She shares many resources, activities and materials all linked to sector led research and practical examples of her work. 

Here Glynis talks about the outstanding opportunities that exist in ensuring lesson observation is a key part of professional learning and development for all those with a pupil facing role. She looks at the intrinsic value of developing a coaching approach to ensuring there is a two way model where both the observed and the observer learn from the process and where feedback leads to positive and constructive change.

In this podcast Glynis talks about the synergy between coaching and appraisal. The appraisal process will need to be carefully managed as we move towards welcoming all learners back into the classroom. Glynis focuses on how coaching can support line managers to create a solutions focused approach to appraisal through the use of coaching skills and an approach that ensures each individual takes responsibility for their own goals and objectives linked to the vision and ambition for future learning and achievement. 

Glynis introduces one of Learning Cultures most popular courses. Coaching and teaching have a synergy that cannot be easily ignored by anyone who has spent time learning how to coach.  She examines some of the skills that make learning how to coach such as valuable skill for teachers. She ends this podcast by saying, we will all need new approaches and positive answers to welcome back learners who have been away from school. Coaching provides so many answers to ensuring both teachers and pupils have the confidence, self-esteem and self-belief to move forward from here and continue to make exceptional progress.

In this episode, Glynis focuses on how coching and the pastoral process has a symbiosis that must not be ignored in the quest to create a whole organisation coaching culture. 

Glynis talks about how the middle leader is pivotal in ensuring the vision for continuous improvement and curriculum cohesion is translated into measurable, achievable and realistic goals. She talks about how coaching is a powerful conduit for managing teams in planning and delivering positive futures as we plan for the next steps in learning.

How does a school, college or other place of learning create a quality assurance system that ensures consistent, high quality teaching, outstanding learning, curriculum breadth and measurable impact? Glynis draws on the tried and tested systems that apply in business and how these can be adapted to create outstanding pedagogy, learning and curriculum impact. 

In this podcast Glynis talks about the content of Learning Cultures' highly acclaimed course that focuses on how leaders in education can create a collaborative culture that delivers outstanding learning, powerful pedagogy and a shared commitment to the highest quality education for all. 

Glynis from Learning Cultures talks about coaching and how as we move forward from here developing a coaching culture will be the most powerful driver of positive change that delivers creative futures for all staff and learners as we plan the return to school.