1st Edition
Mentoring Languages Teachers in the Secondary School A Practical Guide
SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO MENTORING
Introduction
Laura Molway and Anna Lise Gordon
Chapter 1. Models of mentoring
Laura Molway and Anna Lise Gordon
Chapter 2. Understanding yourself and how your experiences influence your approach to mentoring
Gillian Peiser
Chapter 3. What makes a good mentor in modern languages? How to help beginning teachers flourish
Trevor Mutton and Robert Woore
SECTION 2: GETTING STARTED AS A MENTOR
Chapter 4. Setting your mentee up for success
Kirsten Gregory
Chapter 5. Supporting emerging languages teachers: key principles to guide the journey
Judith Rifeser, Bernadette Holmes, and Caroline Conlon
Chapter 6. Supporting the integration of beginning languages teachers into the community of practice
Crista Hazell
SECTION 3: DEVELOPING BEGINNING LANGUAGES TEACHERS’ PEDAGOGICAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND UNDERSTANDING
Chapter 7. Supporting beginning languages teachers to analyse teaching that they observe
Sandra Cohen
Chapter 8. Supporting the lesson planning process of beginning languages teachers
Sophie Vauzour
Chapter 9. Helping beginning language teachers to analyse their own planning and teaching
Trevor Mutton
Chapter 10. Observing your mentee’s teaching and giving written feedback
Francesca Knight
Chapter 11. Holding pre- and post- lesson discussions with beginning languages teachers
Laura Dixon, Lynda Hamilton, and Lisa Madden
Chapter 12. Accelerating mentorship: coaching insights for empowering mentor meetings
Candida Javaid
SECTION 4: PROVIDING EFFECTIVE SUPPORT FOR BEGINNING LANGUAGES TEACHERS’ WELL-BEING
Chapter 13. Managing well-being and workload with beginning languages teachers
Juliette Claro and Anna Lise Gordon
Chapter 14. Supporting a beginning languages teacher who is struggling: a range of scenarios
Kathryn Broom, Juliette Claro, Adam Lamb, Lisa Panford, Sallie Roberts-Crystal, and Maud Waret
SECTION 5: SUPPORTING LANGUAGES TEACHERS AS THEY PROGRESS THROUGH LATER STAGES OF THEIR TRAINING AND BEYOND
Chapter 15. Engaging with and in research for classroom practice supporting the beginning languages teacher
Suzanne Graham
Chapter 16. Developing the wider professional role of the beginning languages teacher
Rob Bown
Chapter 17. Continuing to mentor beginning languages teachers beyond their initial teacher training
Elizabeth Cundick, Anselm Fisher, and Emily Thornton
Chapter 18. Supporting expert languages teachers: educative mentoring for success
Bernadette Holmes, Judith Rifeser, and Caroline Conlon
Appendix 1: Modern languages lesson observation schedules
Appendix 2: Proforma structure for interactions
Appendix 3: Possible responses to scenarios in Task 17.5
Biography
Laura Molway is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Oxford Department of Education, specialising in second language teacher education.
Anna Lise Gordon was a Modern Languages Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) tutor, before taking on wider leadership and research roles at St Mary’s University, Twickenham.
