Photo by Ann H on Pexels.com From the outside, teacher mentoring can look like a simple weekly meeting, a quick post-lesson conversation, or a shared planning session squeezed in before home time. But mentoring is multi-dimensional work. It involves constant shifting between encouragement and challenge, between stepping in and stepping back as mentors do the … Continue reading Mentoring beginning and early career teachers: A thank you to our mentors
Category: Professional Practice
From ITT student to colleague: sustaining relationships beyond ITT
Photo by Anna Tarazevich on Pexels.com This week, in the middle of a PGCE interview, the applicant asked: “Is there any ongoing support for your trainee teachers after they leave your programme?” I smiled, partly because it is such an important question, and partly because I was thinking about what had happened in the last … Continue reading From ITT student to colleague: sustaining relationships beyond ITT

