Coaching Skills for School Leaders

Start Date: October 2024
Registration Form by May 10th 2024

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Programme Fee: €2,175 – (€375 due with Registration Form by May 10 and €900 due on June 24, 2024 and January 24, 2025)

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Closing date for completed Application Forms is April 30th.

Coaching Skills Programme Schedule 2024/25
Coaching is becoming increasingly important in organisations across many sectors. Whether you are seeking to introduce a coaching culture to your school or striving to unlock the potential of your staff, this programme will equip you with the effective coaching techniques and skills to succeed. You will enjoy a powerful and practical learning experience.

In our world of increased demands and expectations of school leadership roles we often experience pressure, leading to:
• Overwhelm
• Anxiety
• Stress

It’s amazing how quickly these responses become the norm and we just accept this as a way of life.

We are offering a practical, skills based programme to equip you with some of the key skills necessary for effective leadership in your school environment and to support and resource your CPD in a real, practical and relevant way.

The Leadership Coaching programme content and skills respond in a relevant and practical way to the guidelines prescribed in the four domains of the Quality Framework for Leadership and Management from the Department of Education and Skills (2016) publication, Looking at our School.

The programme content is aligned with the AC [Association for Coaching] core competencies.

Training and Learning Methodologies
The course is interactive, combining a balance between coaching theory and practice. Participants will be encouraged to learn by doing and to continuously reflect on new learning experiences. Continuous reflective practice will enable coaching perspectives and skills to be firmly embedded in the school environment.

The programme facilitates experiential learning, giving participants opportunities to practice new skills and discuss how to integrate the skills into the scenarios they regularly face in the school environment.

A wide and varied range of training / learning methodologies will be used, e.g. live coaching demonstrations, YouTube videos, discussion groups, peer coaching practice sessions and observed coaching sessions with constructive feedback.

We firmly believe that one of the most important dimensions of the coach training process is the continuous personal and professional development and transformation of the course participant. Therefore, we encourage and support participants to:

• Become more self aware
• Make more conscious choices daily
• Develop a positive mental attitude about self, others, life and work
• Practice non – attachment
• Live with ambiguity and uncertainty
• Be more resilient

On this Coaching Special Purpose Award Programme you will:
• Discover new ideas in learning and behavioural change based on recent neuroscience research, indicating the value of coaching for leaders.
• Examine cases and situations where coaching would be most useful in your school
• Determine how to blend managing with coaching for the most beneficial results.
• Have achieved a high level of self-awareness
• Identify what mental and emotional states are necessary to hold during a challenging conversation so the person stays receptive to the conversation.
• Learn models of coaching most useful for developing people’s thinking as well as solving problems.
• Practice using coaching in a variety of leadership situations e.g. with staff, parents and students
• Have increased confidence in your coaching skills ability
• Engage in constructive conversations
• Listen with intent and communicate more effectively
• Use powerful questions to influence thinking
• Make requests and acknowledge achievements and best practice
• Delegate with ease and confidence
• Design action plans
• Establish agreements and commitments
• Monitor and facilitate progress through support, encouragement and validation
• Engage in sharing constructive feedback
• Manage your emotional state to respond effectively to everyday challenges
• Become more resilience in your school leadership role

On successful completion of this programme participants will receive a DUAL AWARD.
QQI Level 6 Certificate in Professional Coaching Practice and Ethics
Diploma in Life and Leadership Coaching accredited by the Association for Coaching (AC).

Programme Modules
Module 1: Leadership coaching in schools – Coaching Principles and Practice
Module 2: Developing the School Leader Coaching Mindset and Skills
Module 3: Developing Emotional Intelligence – applying the coaching skills
Module 4: Coaching Models of Practice for the School Context
Module 5: Coaching and the ISM Team

Assessment Procedures
a) Peer coaching practice
b) Coaching skills practice in the school environment
c) Reflective essays
d) Coaching Skills Demonstraion
e) Reflective Journal

6N2925 Coaching Practice & Ethics

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