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Mentoring and Developing Beginner Teachers and their Mentors

Module overview

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Have raised your awareness of research findings and developed your ability to use these to inform practice.

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

have developed your understanding of the principles and practices of mentoring and coaching, utilising established models and approaches
Have applied your practical understanding of the principles of mentoring to your particular school context and within the context of a particular ITE training programme.
Have a critical understanding of different theoretical and evidence-based perspectives on mentoring and coaching teachers in the very early stages of their career.
Have developed your own reflective practice through critical evaluation of your own experiences of mentoring and coaching and responding to feedback.
Have deepened your knowledge of the best ways to develop models of professional development and dialogue and learn how to implement these in your context.
Have developed your understanding of selected pedagogies for teacher development with a focus on the pedagogies of Practice Based Teacher Education

This module will utilise a blend of in-person, online synchronous and asynchronous taught sessions. This will include:

Group workshops- delivered live in person by the module tutors comprising of the PGCE lead tutor mentor team

Training notes - written by the module tutors

Selected readings and reflections - from the prescribed core texts

Recorded material/podcasts followed by ‘drop-in’ sessions with a module tutor at scheduled times.

Synchronous online seminars conducted via MS Teams.

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Portfolio	100%