Mentoring and coaching are positive and encouraging ways for schools to manage staff performance and leadership development, but turning to outside bodies for training and expertise can be expensive and time-consuming. Internally equipping staff with the skills to coach others is a fantastic way to overcome this boundary and, over time, these highly transferable skills will further teachers' professional development and help them realise their career ambitions.

In Bloomsbury CPD Library: Mentoring and Coaching, Marcella McCarthy draws on her experiences as a school leader to explain different theories of coaching and mentoring, examine research and demonstrate its advantages in various situations, so as to guide you step-by-step through practical methods of coaching and mentoring that can be easily implemented in your own school. There are example scenarios to tackle that will prepare you for a multitude of real-life situations and the easy-to-understand, concise methods of self-evaluation help ensure that mentors track their development and continuously improve their approach.

The book provides a set of ready-to-use training plans to help you develop mentoring and coaching across your school and is accompanied by PowerPoint slides and resources available to download online for free. It offers 14 hours of CPD, equating to a cost of just £1.65 per hour of training!

Marcella McCarthy is principal of an all-through (3-19) Academy in Oxford; an experienced senior leader who has worked in schools ranging from special measures to outstanding, with a track record of success in school improvement. She has extensive experience in coaching and lecturing in the field of teaching and learning, and has written for a range of professional journals. She is a member of the NATE post-16 committee, on the Advisory Board for Cambridge University Press, and National Senior Lead Practitioner for the SSAT. Marcella is also the author of The Spider Strategy: Six Steps to Outstanding.