Are you an advanced practitioner responsible for supporting the professional development of education staff? The University of Bolton's Advanced Coaching CPD course helps you to gain expert coaching skills to enhance the quality of teaching and learning in your school, college or university. It's ideal if you have relevant experience and currently work in education.

Key information

Award:

AdvDip(CPD)

Mode of Study:

Part-time

Duration:

15 weeks

Location:

University of Bolton

Start date:

To be confirmed

Course Details

The University of Bolton has a 'Teaching Intensive, Research Informed' ethos. We aspire to offer postgraduate student-focused courses that inform best practice in teaching and learning, underpinned by the research knowledge of our high-quality staff.

This contemporary and stimulating stand-alone module supports you in building the expert coaching skills needed to support the professional development of education staff and enhance the quality of teaching and learning at your institution. Our welcoming team of highly experienced, professionally and academically qualified staff will support you in reflecting on your identity as a coach and guide you as you gradually develop your coaching competencies.

With our support, you'll explore a variety of coaching models, critically analyse their impact on professional development, and then develop your own competence in coaching. We'll guide you as you plan, deliver and reflect on your own coaching sessions, which will be recorded. These sessions will support you in reflecting on your learning journey towards developing advanced coaching skills. We'll also encourage you as you formulate recommendations on how to build and enhance a coaching culture in your organisation to support the quality of teaching and learning.

Highlights

Our students are drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds. Sharing your peers' individual and unique educational insights and perspectives helps enrich your learning experience.
We promote research and critical enquiry, helping you learn to make sound, evidence-based independent judgements.
This course is part of a suite of professional development courses covering contemporary issues and developments in education that focus on equipping you with advanced skills and knowledge to help your career progression.
When you successfully complete this course, you'll be awarded an Advanced Diploma of CPD worth 30 credits at Level HE7 that can contribute towards the MEd Professional Development in Education or MA Educational Leadership degrees offered by the University of Bolton.

Key Features

This course allows you to gain career-enhancing skills without committing yourself to an entire postgraduate degree.
Face-to-face sessions and one-to-one support are offered by our team of highly experienced, enthusiastic and dedicated experts.
Our academic team is actively involved in educational research, helping you to explore issues from a robust research-informed knowledge base.
Our well-stocked library offers a comprehensive selection of relevant texts and access to an extensive online database of multimedia sources, including eJournals, podcasts, vodcasts and eBooks.

Normally, you'll have successfully completed an honours degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject, and have appropriate work experience.
An initial qualification in teaching, if this is not formally part of your first degree, is desirable. Experience in the education sector is strongly advised because you'll need to reflect critically on your experience and relate theory to practice.
We're more than happy to have an informal chat with you about this course, either over the phone or in person. If you wish to meet in person, please contact the Programme Leader to arrange a mutually convenient time. (While we reserve the right to interview it's not our usual practice for this course.)
If English isn’t your first language, you’ll also need IELTS 6.5 with normally no less than 6.0 in any band (or equivalent). We also accept a range of other English language qualifications – please visit our English Language Requirements web page for more details.

Where changes are made to material information contained in this course description or a decision is taken to suspend a course between the offer of admissions and enrolment, we will inform applicants at the earliest possible opportunity and will outline the various options available to the applicant.

This advanced professional course can support you in building expert coaching skills of great value for ambitious education professionals. When you successfully complete this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge needed to support the professional development of education staff and enhance the quality of teaching and learning at your school, college or university.

Course fees

Home students starting this course in the first year will be required to pay a Home fee of £1,416 for the academic year 2024/25.

Overseas students starting this course in the first year will be required to pay a Overseas fee of £2,658 for the academic year 2024/25.

Important note regarding tuition fees for the 2023-2024 academic year: EU nationals who meet residency requirements (have settled or pre-settled status) may be eligible for 'Home' fee status. If you do not meet these residency requirements, overseas fees will apply. Irish citizens living in the UK or Ireland will be eligible for 'Home' fee status under the Common Travel Area arrangement. Please read the student finance for EU students web page on www.gov.uk for information.

The fees for a student's course of study will be set for the normal duration of that course subject only to inflationary increases – measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded in March each year to take effect for subsequent start dates.

Bursaries

Click here for more information about the scholarships and bursaries available to University of Bolton students.

For details of how to apply for this course, please choose your status from the options below:

Please contact Admissions by telephone on 01204 903903 or email enquiries@bolton.ac.uk

Admissions
University of Bolton
Deane Road
Bolton, BL3 5AB
United Kingdom

Tel: 01204 903903
Email: enquiries@bolton.ac.uk

International applications are not possible for this course

As an international student you are not allowed to study this course because of the restrictions on your visa.

We offer a wide range of full-time courses in lots of different subjects, many of our courses start in September and January. If you would like to see what courses are available please visit our Course Search.

Collaborative learning that sees course members as co-developers of knowledge is a central focus and resource for this professional development course. You'll be involved in personal and professional research and sharing good practice as you contribute to forums, discussions and workshops on specific themes.

We use blended learning and a variety of learning and teaching methods, including online delivery and engagement where appropriate. You'll learn in individual, group and collaborative settings.

We employ formative assessment to support your learning, allowing you to reflect on feedback on your progress from your tutors and peers. The summative assessment strategy is underpinned by the production of a portfolio of evidence.

Modules

Advanced Coaching

Assessment methods

Level	Assesment method
Level one	Coursework 100%

Learning activities

Level	Learning activity
Level one	Guided independent study 84%, Scheduled learning and teaching activities 16%

Disclaimer

The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. The university considers changes to courses very carefully and the university will minimise any changes. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis and changes may be necessary due to legitimate staffing, financial, regulatory and academic reasons. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up-to-date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason, we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.