Coaching Professional in Education Apprenticeship Level 5
In response to a growing demand to professionalise coaching in education settings, including one-to-one coaching, team coaching and leadership coaching, this apprenticeship is designed to provide senior teachers and education leaders with the tools and techniques to improve the quality of teaching and learning in schools and Multi-Academy Trusts and to embed coaching within an organisation’s wider practice, approach, and culture.
The Coaching Professional in Education Apprenticeship ensures coaches in schools have the advanced theory, skills, and strategies to empower and engage others to enhance their professional performance. Professional coaches build the self-belief of other teachers, encouraging them to be curious and self-aware, better equipping them to collaborate, innovate and deal with the many challenges faced in educational establishments daily.
Effective coaching is future-focused, releases potential, and enables transition, transformation and change for long-term, sustainable improvement. Professional coaching skills also create effective leaders who foster a growth culture by raising aspirations, providing meaningful feedback and holding people accountable for their actions. Coaches empower teaching staff to drive their organisation forward by embedding a collaborative culture of continual, sustained improvement to realise both professional and organisational goals.
This apprenticeship duration is 14 months.
KSBs
The Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours covered during your apprenticeship training.
Delivery and EPA
How we deliver the apprenticeship and how it is assessed in your end-point assessment.
Overview
View the overview document below that explains the apprenticeship in more detail.
Entry Requirements:
Whilst any entry requirements will be a matter for individual employers, an apprentice will have achieved maths and English Level 2 qualifications applicable for teaching and Non- teaching staff within schools.
During your apprenticeship you will develop the following professional behaviours, knowledge and coaching skills that as a Professional Coach, will enable you to:
- Design and develop coaching contracts that meet professional and organisational goals
- Deliver highly effective coaching sessions that ensure clarity of purpose, confidence to act and a drive to succeed.
- Demonstrate sophisticated interpersonal skills when working with others, generating rapport and trust
- Utilise a wide range of coaching tools and techniques to enable reflection, shift mindsets, and embed new habits
- Evaluate the effectiveness of coaching interactions to measure impact, assure quality and prompt self-development
- Lead an organisational coaching strategy to ensure coaching embeds across practice, approach, and culture
Session Plan
SESSION 1: Embracing the coaching fundamentals
By exploring the latest research and thinking, you will:
- define and articulate what coaching is, and is not, as well as understand when it can be a powerful tool for developing others.
- discover how to setup coaching so it is impactful.
- learn some of the fundamental skills of coaching, like effective listening and responding.
SESSION 2: Detecting problems and overcoming barriers to change
By exploring the latest research and thinking, you will:
- learn how to manage the coaching process, ensuring a careful balance is maintained between exploring the strategic and the operational.
- learn how detect problems and overcome barriers to change.
- understand, analyse, and apply a range of coaching models.
SESSION 3: Growing awareness of self and others to improve learning and insight.
By exploring the latest research and thinking, you will:
- gain strategies to listen out for values, beliefs and assumptions and the tools to tackle them.
- learn how to shift a goal into one that is empowering and motivating.
- explore powerful feedback techniques to promote deep thinking.
SESSION 4: Inspiring clarity, confidence, and a drive for high performance.
By exploring the latest research and thinking, you will:
- explore how to create a vision for coaching.
- learn strategies for setting goals that inspire action and change.
- apply techniques for effective action planning.
SESSION 5: Managing different people and emotions to ensure everyone grows.
By exploring the latest research and thinking, you will:
- adapt your coaching practice to different personality types.
- apply advanced contracting techniques to ensure impact.
- explore tools for managing emotions to ensure acceptance and growth.
SESSION 6: Articulating your progress and evaluating your impact as a coach.
By exploring the latest research and thinking, you will:
- learn how to articulate your progress and impact as a coach.
- explore how to lead and embed a high-performing coaching culture.
- apply your coach expertise to provide feedback to other coaching professionals.
Delivery model
This 14-month apprenticeship programme consists of seven, three-hour facilitated sessions with a series of post session challenges. These post session challenges will involve:
- Coaching three colleagues around an organisational improvement project.
- Completing six short assignments, articulating your views on several key issues relating to coaching, for example, the importance of contracting and re-contracting.
- Six activities to engage with theory relating to professional coaching, from feedback methods to models for auditing organisational culture.
Our courses start at various points in the year, typically every 4 months. All enrolments must be completed two weeks before the 1st Digital classroom session.
End Point Assessment
Following successful completion of the Gateway, the meeting to determine if you are ready to undertake EPA, you will proceed to end-point assessment (EPA).
The EPA is undertaken by an independent assessment organisation chosen by your employer. The End Point assessment components are:
- Observation of two coaching sessions – showcasing the skills as a coach
- Interview – relating to the apprentice’s learning journey and impact to date
- Scenario-based Knowledge Test – covering how an apprentice can apply key theory in practice
The overall grade of Fail, Pass or Distinction will be determined by the End Point Assessment organisation.
Professional registration and progression
On completetion of this course, the Apprentice will be qualified as a Level 5 coaching professional and affiliated to several international accrediting bodies.
Recognised by:
The European Mentoring and Coaching Council
The Association for Coaching
The International Coach Federation