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“How to make Academic Mentoring effective and manageable”

The main features of this course include:

  • How to develop an effective Academic Mentoring System
  • How to analyse data currently available to help support Academic Mentoring
  • How to develop and use an Audit of Academic Mentoring in your school
  • How to use an Effective Tool to Evaluate the Success of Academic Mentoring in your school
  • Scenarios and Video Extracts to demonstrate effective practice
  • How to use Student Voice in the context of Academic Mentoring

Dates

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Synopsis

Ensuring student progress and maximising academic achievement are essential aspects of addressing the outcomes of Every Child Matters. All school staff have an important role in monitoring the progress of pupils and in supporting them to achieve their potential. It is therefore essential that any system is manageable and that staff are confident and equipped with the skills and strategies to make mentoring sessions effective and meaningful. This practical course will provide guidance and advice for establishing and developing a manageable system in the whole school as well as providing practical strategies for making mentoring effective and successful with tutor groups and individual pupils. This course is designed for progress leaders, Heads of Year, Learning Co-ordinators and any staff with responsibility for supporting and monitoring the academic achievement of pupils.

Materials

Course members will receive a handbook containing:

  • Training materials for use in your department, including copies of all PowerPoint slides used on the day
  • Guidance notes on best practice, and legal requirements
  • Detailed guidance on VAT
  • Reference materials on the latest funding developments
  • Checklists to help the school review its current accounting procedures
  • Tips, advice and techniques to improve the effectiveness of your financial systems

The Day

09.30 Registration and refreshments
10.00 Mentoring for academic success
  • What is Academic Mentoring?
  • Reasons for Academic Mentoring
10.30 Developing a whole school academic mentoring system
11.15 Refreshments
11.30 Making Academic Mentoring manageable
  • Using data to identify target groups
  • Effective tracking and utilisation of data which leads to early intervention
  • Making best use of 20 minute sessions
  • Getting the conditions right
  • Key Stages in relationship including effective management of Distance Stage
  • Structuring mentoring sessions
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Student Voice – Academic Mentoring in the context of Every Child Matters
  • Learning conversations
  • Effective use of learning guides
  • Understanding learning style profiles of learners
  • Developing successful and independent learners
  • Developing Academic Mentoring through case studies
  • Use of video footage to demonstrate effective practice
15.30 Ten practical tips
15.45 Evaluations and depart

Dates

Course durations greater than one day run consecutively from the date shown.

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