Mentoring for Initial Teacher Training

Through face-to-face workshops, online activities and supplementary reading, together we will cover everything that trainees need to know about pupil learning, how your trainees can be supported to manage and assess their own learning; and how you can help them develop professional behaviours for a successful career in teaching.

You will undertake professional development aligning to your professional practice as a mentor, embedding evidence-based practice into your day-to-day mentoring using a range of teaching approaches, including simulated learning.

You will also learn to reflect on the impact that mentoring has on your trainees, including how to plan for and implement opportunities that allow trainees to develop their professional knowledge and skills in Early Years, Primary or Secondary classrooms.

The course is organised into five areas that are key to mentor development:

1. Supporting Teaching
2. Designing and Structuring Learning and Assessment
3. Developing Career-long learning
4. Delivering ITT
5. Implementation of ITT in Practice

Each of these areas deals with an important aspect of mentoring trainee teachers. You will not only need to engage with these topics, but also consider your own professional experience as a teacher and mentor in relation to them.

The course materials you use will take a holistic view of both the learning that ITT trainees need to undertake in their QTS courses, and the learning that you as a mentor need to undertake in order to support them, aligning with the National Professional Qualification for Leading Teacher Development (NPQLTD).

You can study this module on its own but it also bears 60 credits towards a Masters degree in Education at ARU.