Edge Hill University

Partnership Mentor Training

Further Education and Training

2018/19

Key documents

▪ Professional Practice Handbook

▪ Lesson observation feedback forms

▪ ETF Professional Standards

▪ Mentor Profile and Role descriptor (in handbook)

▪ Mentor Training Evaluation form

▪ http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/educationpartnership/

Objectives

▪ Discuss the roles and responsibilities of the Mentor

▪ Consider the Professional Standards for the sector and how trainees will meet and evidence them

▪ Write effective targets

▪ Plan the development of your role

▪ Share contact details with Personal Tutor

Let's look at your role

▪ Induction - settling in, timetable, policies, practicalities

▪ Mentoring

▪ Coaching (including pre observation)

▪ Modelling - shadowing, professional duties

▪ Assessing - observations, portfolio, professionalism, feedback

▪ Monitoring (Cause for Concern form, tracking targets)

▪ Communicating (trainee and Edge Hill University)

From Push to Pull as a Mentor during the placement

Scaling can be a useful exercise when trying to help trainees find their own solutions and

how they might move on.

Using a scale can help trainees discuss what they might need to do as it feels less intrusive

than direct questioning and trainees are generally very honest in their self-evaluations

For any given topic (planning, assessing, choice of teaching strategies, encouraging

behaviour for learning etc.) you can ask the trainee to identify on a scale of 1 – 10 how

confident they feel

Ask the trainee what they might need to do in order to reach that next number

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Let's look at responsibilities

▪ OneNote - hours, logs, standards, observations

▪ Mentor meetings - equivalent to 1 hour per week

▪ 3 observations - 2 of which are joint with the

personal tutor - checking of planning, rationales,

assessment

▪ Interim and Summative meetings and reports

▪ Support opportunities for breadth of experience

e.g. Pastoral role, engagement with Maths,

English and SEND

▪ Communication with Edge Hill University Personal

Tutors Quality Officers and Ofsted

▪ Subject development

▪ Mentor evaluations

Let's look at the standards

▪ http://www.et-

foundation.co.uk/supporting/programmes/profes

sional-standards/

▪ How can you help your trainee to meet them?

▪ Linking theory to practice – checking planning and rationales

Let's look at a lesson

▪ What feedback would you give to this trainee?

▪ What targets would you set for this trainee?

▪ Joint observation process

Let's look at benefits for you

▪ CPD

▪ Pre-Programme events

▪ Partnership Lead Trainers

▪ Another member of your department with

up to date teaching methods to benefit your

learners

DBS

Any trainee enrolled on an ITT programme has satisfied our robust and rigorous DBS

clearance processes and has been found to be suitable to undertake a course of Initial

Teacher Training (ITT) leading to the recommendation of the award of Qualified Teacher

Status (QTS) Early Years Teacher Status (EYTS), and in Further Education and Training,

Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS).

The ITT Criteria also sets out that “where the accredited ITT provider [Edge Hill University]

has obtained a DBS check, the trainee should not be subjected to any further DBS checks,

such as by a partner school/setting…Persons guilty of breaching the DBS Code of Practice

are liable to de-registration, a fine and imprisonment.”

Safeguarding

The Faculty of Education safeguarding policy is intended to guide the actions of students/

trainees who may have concern for the safeguarding and welfare of children during the

professional practice elements of their programme. Trainee teachers in your setting will

follow the safeguarding procedures that your setting has and will report any concerns to

you as appropriate. Members of staff from our partnership need to be aware that any

safeguarding concerns reported to your setting will also be reported to the designated

senior manager with safeguarding responsibilities in Faculty of Education at Edge Hill

University and you will be contacted by this member of staff with regards to the concern

raised. This is to ensure children are protected and students/ trainees are well supported

throughout any process of enquiry.