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EDGL919 Coaching and Mentoring Educators - University of Wollongong

Learning Outcome 1: Demonstrate knowledge of the research, theories and complexities of coaching and mentoring educators in educational settings
Learning Outcome 2: Demonstrate understanding of the policy and organisational context in which coaching, and mentoring are enacted
Learning Outcome 3: Use knowledge and skills to examine and practice effective coaching and mentoring strategies
Learning Outcome 4: Ability to critically analyse and communicate issues relating to effective workplace coaching and mentoring
Learning Outcome 5: Applied skills and knowledge to evaluate a mentoring program.

Assessment: Report - A professional conversation

Professional conversations are not "chit-chats" but purposeful reflective dialogues. These conversations are critical for professional growth and central to mentoring and coaching.

This assessment requires you to participate in a professional conversation with a peer. The peer, as mentee or coachee, must be an adult and have full acknowledgement of the conversation and its requirements. Follow the process below carefully to ensure you understand the requirements of the assessment task.

Process
1. Identify an area that you believe you have knowledge into successfully mentor or coach a less skilled/knowledgeable other. This preferably should be a professional educational topic such as mathematics teaching or assessment design. Alternatively, meet with a potential mentee/coachee who you could engage in a professional conversation with. Together decide on a topic for the professional conversation.

2. Identify a mentee/coachee you are able to work with for a period of 20-30minutes. This person should be an adult (18 or over), preferably an educator,and be able to give full permission to partake in the professional conversation.

Preferably this person is interested in your chosen topic and would benefitfrom engaging in a professional conversation.

3. Approach the mentee/coachee and explain the assessment task and topic. Apermission form is available on the Moodle site for them to sign asapproval to participate. Please assure that they will not beidentifiable in the assessment submission. You must use pseudonyms.

4. Identify a suitable time to meet your mentee/coachee. This may be (preferably) face to face but could also be virtually via Skype/ Zoom etc. The time set should be outside of work hours to avoid any disruption to a mentees/coachees professional life. Set aside 20-30 minutes to participate in a professional conversation.

5. Next develop a 3-4-page plan for your professional conversation Whilst, as aMentor/coach, you must be flexible and responsive to your mentee/coachee, you should also be prepared with carefully crafted questions and prompts that will support you to facilitation a quality professional conversation. In this plan you should include: the aims of your professional conversation; the type of approach you will undertake and why; a semi structured script including questions and prompts you may use throughout the conversation; and any additional skills you will utilise. You should include references to support your ideas.

6. Complete your professional conversation. This must be recorded (audio-visual).

7. After the professional conversation listen back to recording of the mentoring conversation (you may need to do this multiple times). During this play back, reflect and analyse on the effectiveness of your mentoring during the conversation. Use the video analysis template to support your analysis.

8. Write a reflection on the professional conversation. Analyse:
a. Your success in achieving your aims set out in your plan
b. The type of approach you took and how successful this was
c. The environment of the professional conversation and how this impacted on the conversation
d. The skills you utilised/ didn't utilise in the conversation and how this impacted on the conversation. You need to be specific here by relating this response back to your plan and discussing specific skills used and what impact they had. You should include specific examples from your audio recording as quotes.
d. Based on the professional conversation, identify future personal goals for your own development as a mentor/coach. Explain why you chose these goals and how you will develop them.