2nd Edition

How to be a Brilliant Mentor Developing Outstanding Teachers

Edited By Trevor Wright Copyright 2018
194 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

  1. The pivotal importance of the mentor
  2. Inputs and outputs
  3. Collaborative working: the heart of good mentoring
  4. Reflective practice: the mentoring conversation
  5. Emotional intelligence
  6. Mentoring together

  7. Challenging the competent trainee: taking risks in the classroom

  8. School-based initial teacher training

  9. Mentoring and coaching: the helping relationship

  10. Mentoring in a primary school

  11. Mentoring the newly qualified teacher

  12. Dear Mentor…

Suggested reading

Biography

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