PCAP Mentor Information

When applying for a place on PCAP, each participant should be provided with (through their Head of School) an agreed school-based mentor who will support the participant during their studies.

In the context of PCAP, mentoring serves two specific purposes.

1) PCAP mentors act as a “critical friend”, someone to:

  • help them through the process of thinking about what they are learning
  • relate what the PCAP participant learns to what actually happens in the learning/teaching environment.
  • raise questions in relation to what PCAP participants are learning during the face-to-face sessions.

2) PCAP mentors act as a “disciplinary colleague”, someone who can:

  • talk about how learning and teaching happens in their academic field & school
  • provide discipline-specific examples of the application of generic learning and teaching concepts learned in PCAP (the learning achieved through the PCAP face-to-face sessions is predominantly generic, that is, applicable to any academic discipline)

Further details about PCAP mentors can be found in the PCAP mentor document available to download here.