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Catherine Manning

The language of mentoring

With applications for the 2022–23 mentoring training programmes closing on 30 September, Dr Catherine Manning, ETF Deputy Director – Design and Development, considers the language we use to define mentoring and the importance of a common understanding.

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Catherine Manning

The ETF’s definition of mentoring

With applications for the 2022–23 mentoring training programmes currently open, Dr Catherine Manning, ETF Deputy Director – Design and Development, looks at the ETF’s definition of what mentoring is and isn’t, and challenges you to understand mentoring in your own setting.

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Catherine Manning

Mentoring, coaching or ‘moaching’?

With applications for the 2022–23 mentoring training programmes now open, Dr Catherine Manning, ETF Deputy Director – Design and Development, shares what she has learnt about definitions of mentoring and coaching and the lessons she thinks we can all take away.

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Yvonne Williams

How can we prevent CPD burning up on re-entry?

Yvonne Williams, a trainer on the ETF’s Advanced mentoring skills for experienced mentors programme, looks at how this mentoring CPD can be durably embedded into organisational and system learning.

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Train the Trainers in Advanced Practice – now open!

Applications for the penultimate pathway of the Education and Training Foundation’s Advanced Practitioner year 4 programme – Train the Trainers in Advanced Practice – are now open. Joss Kang of touchconsulting explains why and how to apply.

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Mentoring, Mariah Carey, and the performance-improving difference they can make

Trainer Joanna Stokes reflects on the experience of leading ETF mentoring courses during lockdown and the difference mentoring can make.

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Catherine Manning

A major new mentoring programme that you could help develop and that could help develop you

Dr Catherine Manning, the Education and Training Foundation’s National Head of Practitioner Research and Development, previews an exciting new project to develop the use of mentoring in the FE and Training Sector, the part you could play and the potential benefits of the work.

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