How to be a Brilliant Mentor

Developing Outstanding Teachers

Buch | Hardcover

194 Seiten

2017 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-90073-8 (ISBN)

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How 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. With a wealth of expertise and research, offering clear and practical guidelines to enhance your mentoring and understand the complex and often ambiguous role of the mentor in school.

How 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 and developing and maintaining relationships

collaborative working

dealing with critical incidents

developing reflective practice

what to do if relationships break down

the relationship between coaching and mentoring

mentoring newly qualified teachers (NQTs) as well as trainees.

Illustrated with the experiences of real trainees, How to be a Brilliant Mentor can be dipped into for innovative mentoring ideas or read from cover to cover as a short enjoyable course which will give you added confidence in your mentoring role.

The book is a companion to How to be a Brilliant Trainee Teacher, also by Trevor Wright.

Trevor Wright is a Senior Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Secondary Education at the University of Worcester, UK.

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

The pivotal importance of the mentor

Inputs and outputs

Collaborative working: the heart of good mentoring

Reflective practice: the mentoring conversation

Emotional intelligence

Mentoring together

Challenging the competent trainee: taking risks in the classroom

School-based initial teacher training

Mentoring and coaching: the helping relationship

Mentoring in a primary school

Mentoring the newly qualified teacher

Dear Mentor…

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.9.2017
Zusatzinfo	7 Tables, black and white; 24 Line drawings, black and white; 24 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
ISBN-10	1-138-90073-7 / 1138900737
ISBN-13	978-1-138-90073-8 / 9781138900738
Zustand	Neuware