Mentoring And Coaching –

edl531

(3 credits)

This course provides an exploration into how mentoring and coaching improves teaching and learning. This course examines mentoring and coaching competencies, including ethical guidelines, creating collegial relationships, building learning communities, effective communication, problem-solving and conflict resolution, and facilitating learning and accountability. Candidates will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to integrate and apply these competencies in real life and instructional leadership situations.

This graduate-level course is 6 weeks. To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.

Topics and Objectives

Foundations of Coaching and Mentoring
- Identify characteristics of coaching.
- Identify characteristics of mentoring.
- Compare and contrast coaching and mentoring.
- Identify the dispositions necessary to be an effective coach and mentor.
- Explore the International Coach Federation Code of Ethics.
Collegial Relationships
- Identify the role and responsibilities of a coach and of a mentor.
- Examine the elements of cognitive coaching.
- Analyze the 16 Habits of Mind.
- Demonstrate effective collaboration skills.
Effective Communications
- Describe factors that impact communication.
- Describe effective communication processes.
- Illustrate strategies for promoting dialogue, resolving conflict, and problem solving.
Mentors as Instructional Coaches
- Examine topics for instructional coaching.
- Analyze opportunities to cultivate learning focused relationships.
Facilitating Results
- Explain the stages of mentoring.
- Identify ways to create awareness.
- Establish realistic goals and objectives.
- Design an action plan.
- Analyze effective modeling and motivation strategies.
- Develop a process to monitor progress and accountability.
Coaches as Leaders of Change
- Develop an understanding of the effects of change on school culture.
- Identify ways to create and communicate support.
- Examine ways to manage change effectively.
- Explore mentoring and coaching as elements of professional growth.

The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.

Mentoring And Coaching –

edl531

Foundations of Coaching and Mentoring

Collegial Relationships

Effective Communications

Mentors as Instructional Coaches

Facilitating Results

Coaches as Leaders of Change

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