“I have been asked to mentor an early career teacher, and nobody showed me how.”
The course: Mentoring Early Career Teachers
Primary and secondary Leading others
What you will be able to do
- Run a weekly meeting that focuses on one improvement at a time
- Give feedback after an observation that the new teacher can act on
- Notice early when an early career teacher is struggling, and respond
The programme, unit by unit
56 lessons in 7 units, 16 h 48 min in all. Lessons run about 18 minutes each, so you can fit one into a free period.
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The mentor’s role
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Setting up the year
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The weekly meeting
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Observing and giving feedback
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Difficult conversations
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Wellbeing and workload
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Finishing the year well
What is in the course
Streamed video lessons, watched online.
- Filmed examples of a mentor meeting, a lesson debrief and a hard conversation
- A year-long calendar for the mentoring relationship
- Observation and feedback frameworks you can use tomorrow
- Guidance on balancing support with challenge
Who it’s for
Experienced teachers who mentor early career colleagues, and the leaders who select and support them.
Primary and secondary teaching.
What this course is not
- An accredited qualification. It is professional development, not an award from an exam board or a university.
- Live teaching. There is no live tutor and no timetable. You press play when you are ready.
- Marked or assessed. Nobody marks your work. Practice tasks are for your own planning and reflection.
- A replacement for your school. It does not replace your school's own induction, or a SENCo's advice about a pupil.
- Something to download. Everything is streamed online. There are no files to keep.
Watch it in your week
About 9 weeks at 2 hours a week
The lessons add up to 16 h 48 min, which is 16.8 hours. Give it 2 hours a week and 16.8 ÷ 2 = 8.4, rounded up to 9 weeks. That is about 7 lessons a week.
You have 24 months of access, so you can stop for a busy half-term and pick up where you left off.
- 1 hour a week17 weeks
- 2 hours a weekour suggestion9 weeks
- 3 hours a week6 weeks
- 5 hours a week4 weeks
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