Mentoring Teachers Course

Overview

Grow your educational leadership skills.

Seeking the next step in your education career? Whether you’re looking to become a mentor teacher for the first time, or want to boost your existing educational leadership skills, gain the tools you need to effectively support and mentor the people in your kura | school.

With our Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury education experts, you’ll learn more about education and leadership, including how to facilitate positive outcomes, te ao Māori mentoring principles, and growing empowering mentor-mentee relationships.

Whether you’re in early childhood, primary or secondary education, you can use these educational leadership skills to support Pre-service, Tōmua | Provisional and Tūturu | Full Practising teachers, as well as laying the foundation for your future in education management.

This course is ideal for

• ECE, Primary and secondary teachers
• Educational leaders and managers
• People interested in beginning a career in educational leadership or management

Course outline

Our courses are flexible, enabling you to plan your study around your other commitments. You can choose to study when it suits you during the learning period (3 February – 6 April, with a one-week study break from 3 – 9 March), followed by a 2-week review period for marking and feedback (7 – 20 April).

We recommend completing around 6 hours of study a week during the 8-week learning period (excluding the study break)– you can view the course overview here for more details on assessment timings. 

Module 1: Te Pakiaka o te tōtara

Explore the differences between coaching and mentoring and the importance of establishing mentor relationships.

Module 2: Te Taitea o te tōtara

Explore a Māori worldview of mentoring principles in your current practice. Evaluate how the principles of Te Tiriti influence relationship building in a mentoring context.

Module 3: Te Taikaha o te tōtara – Ako 

Develop a range of ‘Listening for Learning’ skills to create a learning environment that benefits a teachers' perceptions and responses to teaching and learning.

Module 4: Te Taikaha o te tōtara – Wānanga 

Develop an understanding of different types of feedback and using an educative mentoring approach with your mentee. 

Module 5: Te Karamatamata o te tōtara

Facilitate difficult learning conversations based on a framework that promotes productive dialogue and empowers teachers for positive outcomes. Formulate SMART goals to help teachers build their professional capability.

Assessments

• 2 Module quizzes = 15%
• Forum participation = 20%
• Final assessment = 65%
  

Upon successful completion of the course you will be issued a digital badge to recognise your learning achievements. This can take up to 2 months to be delivered after the marking and feedback period.  

Requirements

To take this course, you must:

• Be a qualified teacher
• Have a teaching degree and/or extensive and relevant previous teaching experience 

Technology requirements

We recommend a laptop or desktop computer and a reliable internet connection. For most courses you'll need to download and populate assignments. These are usually available in Microsoft Word.

Course fees

Course fees must be paid before learning can begin, either via online credit-card payment, or by contacting info@uconline.ac.nz to request an invoice. Please note: fixed invoice payment dates apply, so we recommend getting in touch with us as soon as possible to request an invoice, as this option is subject to availability.

Group discounts

Get your colleagues together to take advantage of our group discounts: 

• 10% for 3 - 6 learners
• 15% for 7+ learners

Contact our Partnerships Manager to learn more and enquire now.

Cap & minimum enrolment threshold

A minimum number of learners is needed for effective interaction and feedback, while a maximum cap of learners ensures high quality learning and support. If the minimum number of enrolments required for a course isn’t met, or the maximum cap is exceeded, learners will be given the option to defer their study or receive a refund.

Crediting this course towards a degree

In certain cases the points from this course can be credited towards further study with UC. Learn more about cross-crediting and recognition of prior learning.

Our people

Please note: our academic team develop and present video content within their courses, but are not always the course facilitator. The course facilitator will engage with learners in the course forums, answer queries and mark assignments.