Coach training for educators
Develop your coaching skills, tailored for the education sector. Earn a highly credible coaching qualification. Then use coaching to support your students, your teams, and your leaders
Coaching is a learnable skill, like teaching. In all of our coach training programmes, you will learn how to:
- Use your existing skills of listening, asking good questions, and holding pauses and silence
- Structure coaching sessions to help your coachee identify and make important changes
- Hold back from giving advice to your coachee
Which programme is right for me?
The coach training programme that you choose to enrol on will depend on a number of things:
- Whether you want to focus just on coaching skills, or want to also earn a qualification
- Whether you plan on using your coaching skills with students, colleagues, team members, or parents
- How advanced a coach you would like to be!
We have a range of coach training programmes, that we can deliver within your school/college. And some of our programmes are public programmes, where you can send one or several colleagues to study alongside people from other organisations.
ILM coaching qualifications
We are an approved Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) centre, and offer qualifications that they accredit. The ILM is the premier body for workplace qualifications, and we are proud to be a centre.
The ILM courses we offer have different levels, so you can choose the course according to what you are looking for:
- ILM L3 in effective coaching – suitable for first line supervisors and managers
- ILM L5 in effective coaching (equivalent to a degree) – suitable for experienced managers who are new to coaching
- ILM L7 in coaching for senior executives (equivalent to a Masters) – suitable for experienced leaders who have some coaching experience
In addition to our flagship ILM programmes, we offer a range of coach training courses, that can be delivered either within your school, or as open programmes
- Short course coach training – we can deliver 1 or 2 day coach training that will be suitable for all staff and leaders who will have coaching opportunities
- Coaching children and adolescents – designed for pastoral staff who have the opportunity to work 1:1 with students
- Coaching and pedagogy – combining the best of non-directive coaching and instructional coaching, to help improve teaching practice consistently (delivered as part of our consultancy – coaching and pedagogy)
- Coaching skills for appraisers – providing coaching skills so that appraisers can take a coaching approach to the performance management process (delivered as part of our consultancy – a coaching approach to performance management)
I suggest that all head teachers become coaches. It opens your eyes to what other people are going through. It helps heads to be more self-aware, more aware of other people. And really importantly, it allows heads to see that we can all be responsible and capable of finding our own solutions, if we are asked the right questions.
Everyone in our school needs someone behind them, supporting them. If the head, and a few other key people, are skilled coaches and use a coaching style of leadership, everyone is more likely to feel that support, that trust and that nurture.
Harry Hastings
Head, Ardingly College Prep.
There are many ways to develop yourself, and your colleagues, so why choose coaching?
Amongst other things:
- Encourages autonomy as well as excellence
- Helps to create sustainable change
- Provides skills that can be applied at any time, throughout the school, whatever your role
- Helps to support an environment of continuous learning, reflection and personal and professional growth
