Leading to Learn and Learning to Lead
Just to Think Over
‘Teaching is a learning profession, more than any other. You sharpen
your craft by learning, and you keep learning through your career.
Just when you have cleared one learning curve, you hop onto
another. But teaching is also a collaborative profession like no
other. You learn from others in the profession - through
observation, mutual feedback and sharing of lesson plans and
teaching techniques. And through collaboration, teachers push
the envelope, create new learning curves for each other and rise
their expertise as a group. So this must be our priority – to help
teachers move up their learning curves, and give them space to
reflect and to share lessons techniques so that the profession
keeps moving up in quality.’
Tharman Shanmugaratnam,
Minister of Education,
Singapore
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ACTIVITY-1
DOWN THE MEMORY LANE
1. THINK OF YOUR FIRST DAY IN YOUR
PROFESSION. WHAT WERE YOUR FEELINGS?
2. HOW MUCH HAVE YOU DEVELOPED
PROFESSIONALLY AS OF NOW?
3. HOW DID YOU DEVELOP TO THIS STAGE?
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Activity-2
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MENTORING & COACHING
Empowering School
Leaders with
Mentoring Skills
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
THE PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
1. DEFINE MENTORING AND COACHING
2. DISTINGUISH MENTORING FROM COACHING
3. DISCUSS THE QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS
OF MENTORS
4. EXPLAIN THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF MENTOR
AND MENTEE
5. STATE THE BENEFITS OF MENTORING AND
COACHING
6. ANALYZE THE MENTORING PROCESS
7. IDENTIFY THE SKILLS OF MENTORING
8. IDENTIFY ACTIVE LISTENING SKILLS
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MENTORING AND COACHING
Activity-3
Brainstorm in groups (5 mins)
What does Mentoring mean to
you?
What does Coaching mean to you?
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MENTORING & COACHING
Mentoring is:
A long term ongoing
process of guiding
someone focusing on
his/her overall personal
and professional
development. Also see…
Coaching is :
A short term process of
guiding someone focusing
on specific skill or area of
development.
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MENTORING & COACHING
Activity-4
Differentiating Mentoring & Coaching:
Please read HO1. (in pairs, 5 mins)
Identify and list the key differences
between mentoring and coaching and
share with the class.
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MENTORING & COACHING
Mentoring
Coaching
Continuous & on going
Time bound
Informal
Formal & Structured
Broader in approach
Focused on specific goal
Career and Personal
Development
Long term goals
Specific performance/task
oriented
Immediate goals
Focused on mentee’s
professional growth
Focused on specific areas or
developmental issue
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Terminology in the School Context
Mentor
Principal / Academic Coordinator
/ Supervisor/Monitor/HoD
Mentee
Novice teacher / Fresh recruits
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ACTIVITY-5
BASED ON VIDEO CLIP DISCUSS IN YOUR
GROUP AND WRITE AT LEAST THREE
OBSERVATIONS THAT YOU HAVE MADE.
(5 MINS)
PRESENTATION-10 MINS.
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Responsibilities of Mentor &
Mentee:
Activity-6
In groups list the responsibilities of mentor &
mentee in the chart paper.
(5 mins)
Presentation by the group leader.
(10 mins)
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Group Activity-7
Benefits of M & C
Please form into three groups: Mentor,
Mentee and school administrators
(Management) – (5 minutes)
LIST OUT THE BENEFITS OF MENTORING TO EACH
GROUP. (5 MINUTES)
Share the outcome of the discussion
( 10 minutes).
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READING ACTIVITY-8
Have a quick look at the HO2 to have an
organized understanding of the benefits of
mentoring and coaching. (10 minutes)
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THE MENTORING PROCESS
How does the
mentoring process
take place?
When do we do
mentoring?
For how long?
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MENTORING PROCESS (COACHING)
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11.CONCEPT CHECK(HO9)
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MENTORING SKILLS:
Activity-9
In pairs identify skills that a mentor should
possess. (5 mins)
Share one best skill with the class
(10 mins)
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MENTORING SKILLS
1. DEMONSTRATE GOOD LISTENING SKILLS
2. CREATE AN OPEN AND SUPPORTIVE
CLIMATE FOR DISCUSSION
3. PROVIDE CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK AND
ADVICE.
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ACTIVE LISTENING
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Techniques of Active
Listening:
Activity-10
Tell some techniques of Active
Listening.
Whole class-(10 mins)
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PARAPHRASING
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The listener, in his or her own words,
states an understanding of what has been
heard and asks the speaker to verify or
correct this interpretation
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It may be important to paraphrase feelings
if necessary
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DOOR OPENING
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The listener invites the speaker to
elaborate.
Examples of door openers are:
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Give me an example,
Please tell me more about it,
I’d like to hear more about this,
I’m not sure I …
understand
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USE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT RESPONSES
Phrases like:
I agree..
You are right..
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NON VERBAL LISTENING
Eye contact
Nod your head
Lean in
Smile
“uh uh”
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5. PROBING
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The listener raises a topic that is related to the
speaker’s statement and asks the speaker to
elaborate on that topic.
For example:
• Would you tell me a little more about what you
were thinking there?
• Let me see if I understand what you are saying.
• Can you give me an example of what you are
telling me?
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Activity 11
Watch the video. Discuss in groups/
pairs and list down the skills of active
listening displayed by the mentor in
the video.
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AVOID
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NON PARTICIPATIVE LISTENING
Sit and stare blankly (only
physical presence)
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ROAD BLOCKS (CONVERSATIONS
STOPPERS) TO ACTIVE LISTENING
Directing
 Threatening
 Preaching
 Lecturing
 Providing
Answers
 Disapproving
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Praising
Sympathy
Analyzing
Joking
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SHIPS PASSING IN THE NIGHT
Talking to each other without listening
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NON VERBAL TURN OFF
Showing disinterest through body language
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CONCEPT CHECK (HO15)
(ACTIVE LISTENING)-10 MINS.
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ROLE PLAY
Activity-12
Preconference-(5 mins)
Post conference-(10 mins)
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ACTIVITY-13
Complete the work sheet (HO 18)‘Am
I a good listener’
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