Description
Book SynopsisHow to be a Brilliant Mentor is an informal and accessible guide that provides ideas and reassurance to help support you in your work as a teacher training mentor. Written by experienced trainers, teachers and mentors, it brings together a wealth of expertise and research, offering clear and practical guidelines to enhance your mentoring, helping you to analyse your own practice and understand the complex and often ambiguous role of the mentor in school.
The second edition includes new chapters on school-based training routes, dealing with their advantages and challenges, and on developing trainees through risk taking. All chapters have been updated to refer to the new National Standards for school-based initial teacher training (ITT) mentors.Offering practical strategies and direct problem-solving to help you move promising trainees quickly beyond mere competence, it explores:
- giving effective feedback
- emotional intelligence a
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
- The pivotal importance of the mentor
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- Inputs and outputs
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- Collaborative working: the heart of good mentoring
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- Reflective practice: the mentoring conversation
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- Emotional intelligence
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Mentoring together
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Challenging the competent trainee: taking risks in the classroom
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School-based initial teacher training
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Mentoring and coaching: the helping relationship
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Mentoring in a primary school
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Mentoring the newly qualified teacher
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- Dear Mentor…
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