1st Edition

Mentoring Religious Education Teachers in the Secondary School A Practical Guide

Edited By Helen Sheehan Copyright 2023
270 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book helps mentors working with beginning teachers of religious education to develop their own mentoring skills and provides the essential guidance their mentee needs as they navigate the roller coaster of their first years in the classroom. Offering tried-and-tested strategies, it covers the knowledge, skills and understanding every mentor needs. Practical tools offered include approaches... Read more

List of tables
List of figures
List of tasks
List of contributors
Acknowledgement
Glossary
Introduction 

Section 1 THE BIG PICTURE: MENTORING BEGINNING RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Chapter 1 Models of Mentoring

Gill Golder, Alison Keyworth and Clare Shaw


Chapter 2 Subject-specific mentoring in Religious Education

Helen Sheehan


Chapter 3 The changing nature of the mentor-beginning teacher relationship: from modelling to co-enquirers

Sjay Patterson-Craven


Chapter 4 Understanding Yourself: Positionality and Mentoring

Helen Bromley and Summan Rasib


Chapter 5 A skills audit: your knowledge, skills and understanding as a mentor

Helen Sheehan


 
SECTION 2 THE COMPLEX PICTURE: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND WORLDVIEWS

Chapter 6 What are we doing and how do we do it?  A skills and knowledge audit for a multidisciplinary study
 
Kate Christopher


Chapter 7 Helping beginning teachers develop religious literacy through their classroom practice

Kathryn Wright


Chapter 8   Mentoring beginning RE teachers in Faith Schools

Mark Plater


Chapter 9 Developing beginning teachers’ understanding of knowledge and skills in the RE curriculum

James Holt

 

Chapter 10 Supporting beginning teachers to audit and develop their knowledge, skills and understanding in Religious Education

James Holt, Lara Harris and Lucy Rushforth


 
SECTION 3 THE PRACTICAL PICTURE: MENTORING BEGINNING RELIGIOUS EDUCATION TEACHERS IN PRACTICE

Chapter 11 Helping beginning Religious Education teachers plan effective and creative lessons

Helen Sheehan and Sally Elton-Chalcraft


Chapter 12 Supporting the delivery and evaluation of lessons

Rebecca Davidge and Lisa Vickerage-Goddard

Chapter 13 Observing beginning Religious Education teachers’ lessons

Jane Savill and Alexis Stones

Chapter 14 Post-Observation Discussions and Target Setting

Helen Sheehan


Chapter 15 Supporting Beginning Teachers to teach GCSE and A Level Religious Studies
Rachel Jackson-Royal


Chapter 16 Supporting beginning Religious Education teachers in approaching controversial issues in the classroom

Abigail Maguire


Chapter 17 Helping beginning Religious Education teachers develop their professional practice

Paul Smalley

Index


 

Biography

Helen Sheehan is Course Leader for the Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in Religious Education, and responsible for all humanities PGCE provision (RE, History, Geography, Citizenship & PSHE and Social Sciences) at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.