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Informationen zum Autor Dr Michael Hymans has 26 years experience as a Psychologist, latterly as Principal Educational Psychologist in a local authority Children's Services Department. He has also taught in secondary schools and pupil referral units. He has been a part-time lecturer in Child Development with the Open University. Michael has facilitated a fathers group of children with special educational needs for 13 years. He chairs a voluntary sector nursery admissions panel and is a governor, with specialist responsibility for 'safeguarding', and an additionally resourced (autistic) provision at a secondary school. Michael continues to practice as an Educational and Child Psychologist and works in a private capacity in three different local authority schools, that is mainstream primary and secondary schools and a special school for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties. Michael has presented seminars at the annual conferences of the AEP and DECP for the past 20 years and regularly delivers training for Educational Psychologists, Trainee Educational Psychologists as well as staff in schools on a range of topics that covers child development, special educational needs and school-based interventions. Provides a comprehensive and practical resource that can be of benefit for those interested in introducing coaching and mentoring or those who want to reflect on progress already made and plan for further development. This book is supported by a CD-ROM which includes a staff development PowerPoint and all the copiable practical resources. Zusammenfassung Provides a comprehensive and practical resource that can be of benefit for those interested in introducing coaching and mentoring or those who want to reflect on progress already made and plan for further development. This book is supported by a CD-ROM which includes a staff development PowerPoint and all the copiable practical resources. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Defining Coaching and Mentoring: Similarities and Differences, Chapter 2: What is Coaching in Schools? ,Chapter 3: What is Mentoring in Teacher Professional Development? Chapter 4: Research Findings on the Benefits of Coaching, and mentoring, Chapter 5: Barriers to Coaching and Mentoring and How to Overcome Them, Chapter 6: Key Principles, Skills and Steps of Effective Coaching, Chapter 7: Coaching and Mentoring to Help Develop Staff Resilience, Chapter 8: Coaching and Mentoring to Overcome Resistance to Change and to Support Change Management, Chapter 9: Coaching and Mentoring: Using Motivational Interviewing to Facilitate Change, Chapter 10: From Coaching Thinking Skills to Coaching Thinking Solutions, Chapter 11: Coaching Models: From Theory into Practice, Chapter 12: Coaching and Mentoring Supervision, Chapter 13: PowerPoint Presentation, Chapter 14: Conclusions, References...