The Warwick partnership is moving towards an Instructional Coaching model, recognised by The Gatsby Foundation:

‘Research shows instructional coaching improves teachers’ ability to raise pupil attainment in science’ (Albornoz et al., 2017; Allen, Hafen, Gregory, Mikami and Pianta, 2015) ‘and in other subjects’ (Kraft, Blazar and Hogan, 2018)

The Teacher Development Trust provides research evidence on the impact of instructional coaching, providing ‘strong support […] for improving teachers’ classroom practice’.

Watch this YouTube* video (06:48 long):

We will visit instructional coaching in more detail at the developmental training sessions and through the mentor bulletins.

For further evidence for embedding instructional coaching into our programme please see:

'What does the research tell us about the benefits of an Instructional Coaching approach in ITT?' by Professor Rachel Lofthouse.

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* If you are a PGCEi mentor located in China you may not be able to access this video. For guidance on accessing YouTube videos and other social media content in China please see:

https://www.vpndada.com/how-to-watch-youtube-in-china/

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The Partners' intranet is a really good source of information for all mentors in the Warwick University Partnership.

We regularly send out CTE partnership bulletins. Archived versions are available here and you can also sign up to receive the latest versions when they are published here.

We also run bookable online clinics for one to one mentoring support.

Our mentor support videos are available here.