1st Edition
Coaching and Mentoring Staff in Schools A Practical Guide
Biography
Dr Michael Hymans has 26 years experience as a Psychologist, latterly as Principal Educational Psychologist in a local authority Children's Services Department. He has also taught in secondary schools and pupil referral units. He has been a part-time lecturer in Child Development with the Open University. Michael has facilitated a fathers group of children with special educational needs for 13 years. He chairs a voluntary sector nursery admissions panel and is a governor, with specialist responsibility for 'safeguarding', and an additionally resourced (autistic) provision at a secondary school. Michael continues to practice as an Educational and Child Psychologist and works in a private capacity in three different local authority schools, that is mainstream primary and secondary schools and a special school for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties. Michael has presented seminars at the annual conferences of the AEP and DECP for the past 20 years and regularly delivers training for Educational Psychologists, Trainee Educational Psychologists as well as staff in schools on a range of topics that covers child development, special educational needs and school-based interventions.
