Supporting trainees - Working with school-based colleagues
Mentors play such a crucial role in supporting trainees that it is important to ensure that they receive appropriate training, that they are well supported throughout the year and that their work is moderated to maintain high standards.
- The Role of the subject mentor is to
- Be clear about what is expected of them
- Be able to give constructive and incisive feedback to trainees
- Be quick to identify and respond to the individual needs of trainees
- Be ready to give constructive feedback that can help the programme to develop
- Be able to make consistent judgements about standards
- Use mentoring as part of their professional development
The following documents available for download in this section have been designed with these objectives in mind:
- The role of the subject mentor
- Guidance on observation and feedback
- Setting targets and supporting Associate Teachers' Collection of Evidence - this document aims to support ongoing dialogue between the mentor and the trainee. Observations should be linked to the progress that trainees are making relative to the Standards and the wider expectations of becoming a teacher.
- Provision of appropriate experience in schools/ colleges - this document outlines some suggestions for how mentors design a programme of broadening experience for trainees. One of the issues to be faced by the mentor is how they help the trainee to become more and more independent and the phases suggested in this guidance aim to achieve that gradual transition.
