The Educational Coach: Mentoring and Coaching Excellence in Education

  • Author: Colin Slattery
  • Level: Foundational to Intermediate
  • Estimated study time:
    27.5 hours
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Course overview
A practice-based professional learning program for educators and educational leaders who mentor, coach, or want to develop the capability to do so. Build the knowledge, relational capability and intentional practice to help people think, learn, grow and change, even when the work becomes complex.
  • Estimated learning time: 27½ hours
  • 6 learning units + 2 live learning sessions
  • Completion and certification pathways available

Course at a glance

Included with this course

  • Six self-paced learning units
  • Comprehensive Educational Coach e-manual and self assessment guide
  • Self-assessment across 49 competencies and 10 domains
  • Downloadable coaching tools, templates and resources
  • Live learning, reflection and practice sessions

You'll explore

  • Coaching, mentoring and helping conversations
  • Change, motivation and solution-focused practice
  • Seven coaching frameworks and when to use them
  • Psychological safety, ethics and boundaries
  • Neurodivergent, trauma-aware and culturally responsive coaching practice

In your practice

  • Listen deeply and ask questions that unlock thinking
  • Shift from giving answers to building capability
  • Navigate resistance, change and difficult conversations
  • Know when to coach, mentor, challenge or step back
  • Adapt your approach to the person and context

Built for education.
Grounded in coaching standards.

Designed for educators, teachers, educational leaders, mentors and coaches across early childhood, primary and secondary education. 

49
Coaching competencies across 10 domains
ICF Mapping
All 67 International Coaching Federation Markers 
Educational Standards
All 37 APST focus areas
Alignment to the EYLF & VEYLDF
Coaching is not about solving people’s problems for them. It is about developing their capacity to think, learn, grow and change.