Mentoring and Peer-Coaching Teachers with Jordan Allers

If you've been with us since the start, you may remember our second-ever episode, in which we sat in Emma's house and discussed coaching and mentoring. We were inspired by a talk by a colleague from another university, Jordan Allers, to chew over the different ways we can help novice teachers (as well as more experienced colleagues) to improve their practice. Well, now we can return to the discussion because the wonderful Jordan Allers has jumped ship and joined us here at Cardiff Met! We managed to track him down and bring him to the microphone to put some substance on the original discussion, and to give us some pointers about how we in the teaching profession can raise our mentoring game! Tackling the regular slots, Jordan reveals himself as a lover of organisation, as well as providing us with some reading material and something to try that relates to today's topic. We hope you enjoy what Jordan has to say. We'll be back in a fortnight, when we'll be discussing the role of educational research with Professor David James of Cardiff University.   References   Adair, J. (2006) Effective Leadership Development. London: Jaico Publishing House. Campbell, J. (2016) ‘Coaching in Schools’, in Van Nieuwerburgh, C. (ed.) Coaching in Professional Contexts. London: SAGE Publications. Colwell, J. et al. (2015) Reflective Teaching in Early Education. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Donaldson, G. (2015) Successful Futures: Independent Review of Curriculum and Assessment Arrangements in Wales. Available at: https://gov.wales/docs/dcells/publications/150225-successful-futures-en.pdf (Accessed 21 August 2018). Estyn (2001) Good Practice in the Leadership and Management of Primary Schools in Wales. Cardiff: Estyn Publications. Fletcher, S. and Mullen, C. (eds) (2012) The Sage Handbook of Mentoring and Coaching in Education. London: SAGE Publications. Furlong, J. (2015) Teaching Tomorrow’s Teachers: Option for the future of initial teacher education in Wales [Online]. Available at: https://gov.wales/docs/dcells/publications/150309-teaching-tomorrows-teachers-final.pdf (Accessed: 22 August 2018 Harris, A. (2008) Distributed School Leadership, Developing Tomorrow's Leaders. Oxon: Routledge. Harris, A. (2014) Distributed Leadership Matters. Perspectives, Practicalities, and Potential. London: SAGE Publications. Hughes, M. (2013) Coaching and Mentoring Training Course (School-based CPD), October 2013. Langdon, F. (2017) Learning to mentor: unravelling routine practice to develop adaptive mentoring expertise, Teacher Development. DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2016.1267036 (Accessed: 9 October 2019) Langdon, F. and Ward, L. (2015) Educative Mentoring: a way forward, International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education. https://doi.org/10.1108/ IJMCE-03-2015-0006 (Accessed: 9 October 2019) OECD (2018b) The Future of Education and Skills: Education 2030. Available at: https://www.oecd.org/education/2030/E2030%20Position%20Paper%20(05.04.2018).pdf (Accessed 21 December 2018 Pask, R. and Joy, B. (2007) Mentoring-coaching, a guide for education professionals. Berkshire: Open University Press. Rhodes, C., Stokes, M. and Hampton, G. (2004) A Practical Guide to Mentoring, Coaching and Peer-networking. Teacher Professional Development in Schools and Colleges. London: RoutledgeFalmer. Spence, G. (2016) ‘Coaching for Optimal Functioning’, in Van Nieuwerburgh, C. (ed.) Coaching in Professional Contexts. London: SAGE Publications. Thomson, B. (2014) First Steps in Coaching. London: SAGE. Warwick, J. and Wolpert, M A. (2014) ‘Making the Most of Your Placements’, in Cremin, T. and Arthur, J. (eds) Learning to Teach in the Primary School. Oxon: Routledge. Welsh Government (2014) Principles of Mentoring and Coaching [Online]. Available at: http://learning.gov.wales/docs/learningwales/publications/140214-curee-leaflet-en.pdf (Accessed: 11 December 2018). Welsh Government (2017) Professional standards for teaching and leadership. [Online]. Available at: http://learning.gov.wales/docs/learningwales/publications/170901-professional-standards-for-teaching-and-leadership-en.pdf (Accessed 20 August 2018).   ---------- This episode was recorded at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed campus on 26th November 2019