Developing peer mentoring skills to enhance CPD in teaching and learning and better enable learning communities

Learning Outcomes:

• Deepened their understanding of the nature and benefits of peer coaching.
• Gained a heightened awareness of how coaching skills can be used to enhance individual and group learning.
• Gained insight into how a departmental wide peer mentoring model is evolving in CIT.
• Increased their knowledge and expertise in the use of coaching skills in their professional roles.
• Have practiced their coaching skills in challenging situations.
• Constructed an action plan to utilise the workshop content to improve their peer coaching skills so they can better support their peers and engage in purposeful conversations regarding professional development, development of learning communities and communities of practice.