Teaching Education Report: Coaching vs Mentoring, Strategies for Improvement, and Action Plan

Running head: TEACHING EDUCATION REPORT
TEACHING EDUCATION REPORT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Table of Contents
Task 1.........................................................................................................................................2
Task 2.........................................................................................................................................4
Task 3.........................................................................................................................................6
Reference....................................................................................................................................9

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Task 1
Both the terms coaching and mentoring are regarded as synonyms but when
considered on a stricter sense, there is an ample amount of difference between the two.
Coaching is defined as the process of making individual learning and development so that
their skills in performance is enhanced to a certain level (Cox, Bachkirova and Clutterbuck
2014). Mentoring is defined as the system of improvising efficiency of work, knowledge and
thinking mode, which in turn maximises the individual potential (Johnson and Ridley 2015).
There are a number of differences between the two concepts of coaching and
mentoring which can be traced as follows:
 Coaching is based on task while mentoring is based on relationships, which implies
that coaching is based on only professional relationship while mentoring is based on
both personal and professional relationship.
 The span of coaching is always short-term while the time span of mentoring is long
term. This concept implies that coaching is only limited to a specific period of time
while mentoring can be of long term (David 2016).
 Coaching is driven by performance while mentoring is driven by development of the
individual. This makes the concept of mentoring way more inclusive than coaching as
within the realm of mentoring includes the concepts of personal development and
professional skills.
 Coaching does not include a plan or a strategy in its discourse while mentoring does
include a plan that has to be included in its discourse. Mentoring of a person requires
a planning that has to be included in the whole procedure to make the whole plan
effective.

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In order to have an effectiveness of the role, the needs and effectiveness of the students need
to be considered. I had to meet the requirements and the needs of the students according to
the assignment given to him understanding his style of learning. I even tried to make the
student identify their own needs and responsibilities and make them aware of the required
skill for reflection and self-awareness (Garvey et al. 2017). The task of mine included to
address the potential planning for the action plan of the student and providing feedbacks with
monitoring the achievements.
My learner who had listening issues had to be dealt with lot of care and patience. He
used to get angry whenever any person failed to listen to his actions. I had to allocate some
extra time and efforts for this particular reason, which gave me the reason to be patience and
calm and maintain all the basic requirements for the same. (Mendelsohn and Lynch 2013)
One on One discussion is something that I did with my student and gave him ample scope to
identify his own potentials. Spending extra time with him and listening to all his problems
also made him a lot better in every situation. I asked him to follow some of the basic
strategies of listening skill, which made his situation a lot better in every aspect. One of the
major changes that was allocated was to make him calm and even take a break when he was
feeling angry and not heard by his surroundings. I also asked him to stay away from fights to
keep his mind comfortable and even listen to good music so that he can implement the skills
of listening with great ease.
He overcame his own barriers and made sure to implement my learning and
mentoring in making him overcome his difficulties in listening and used his own skills to
develop the same without any hassles.