- Are you involved in assessing the new apprenticeships?
- Are you clear about your role and responsibilities in the context of the new apprenticeships?
- Do you need support in being an effective learning facilitator?
One of the key features of the new standards-based apprenticeships is the role of learning mentors and coaches and the need to support apprentices throughout their journey and prepare them for end-point assessment. This book takes you through the essentials of learning and development, and the principles and practice of mentoring, coaching and assessing learning. Whatever your vocational subject, this accessible and concise text provides you with an in-depth understanding of these areas and how to effectively apply them to practice.
Table of Content
Introduction
Chapter 1 The new apprenticeships
Chapter 2 Learning and development
Chapter 3 Mentoring processes
Chapter 4 Mentoring and coaching skills
Chapter 5 Assessment
References
Index
About the author
Alison Cogger completed vocational qualifications in early years practice in the 1990s and, following her first degree, took a PGCE in post compulsory education and then taught on a range of programmes including child development, A Levels and Access to higher education. She also mentored student teachers for 6 years in FE. She worked for the Aim Higher programme, leading on FHE progression, which was the subject of her Masters dissertation, then taught on undergraduate degree programmes in HE before moving into adult and community education, where she was acting county manager for creative and healthy living for Kent Adult Education Service. She then returned to HE at Canterbury Christ Church University as programme director of the PGCE 14-19, which is a highly successful, nationally unique teacher education programme leading to either QTS or QTLS. She is completing her doctoral thesis on the professional identity of cross phase vocational teachers. She is currently Faculty Director of School, College and Learning Setting Partnerships and is the faculty lead on apprenticeships.