Assertive Mentoring at Aston Manor School

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Assertive Mentoring at Aston Manor School

• Chris Etheridge

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Questions

• What is Assertive mentoring?
• Why were we interested in it at Aston Manor?
• How did we implement it?
• What has the progress been?
• Plus points and glitches
• What about next year?

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What is Assertive Mentoring?

• Tracks whether students are on target
• Aspirational targets are set and progress
  constantly monitored
• Evidence based meetings
• Appropriate interventions
• Non-negotiable, dont lose face
• Students and staff more aware of where they are
  in each subject and what they need to do to
  improve

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Why did we do it?

• We did lots of soft mentoring
• Difficult to judge impact
• Wanted to focus on the use of data
• Wanted consistent, reliable forecast grades
• Wanted to raise achievement further

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How was it implemented?

• Year 11 only
• SLT to be mentors
• Meeting schedule amended
• Monthly departmental tracking meetings
• Discussion encouraged
• Closely monitored

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Mentor Slip
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Example report Subject history
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Example comments
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Individual report
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Example report All subjects view
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Progress ve and -ve

• Positive feedback from staff students
• Greater awareness
• Better relationships
• Focused discussion
• Departmental responsibility and action taken
• Measurable outcomes
• Coursework improved

• Must be closely monitored
• Lower ability / attendance issues can get into a
  trough
• Implementable strategies need to be offered
  train staff
• Some mentors better than others

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The future at Aston Manor

• Vertical House Structure from 2008
• Every student will have an academic tracking
  mentor (Their House Tutor)
• SLT continue Assertive mentoring with Year 11
  students (started already in Year 10)
• Weekly rota for focus year group
• Academic tracking co-ordinators provide data
• Interim reports 6 times per year
• Staff consistent and confident in entry of data
• All students aware of their own achievement