Mentor Courses: A Resource Book for

This experiential approach to mentoring offers a range of activities for exploring the roles and duties of mentors and for practising the skills required to support the development of learner-teachers.

Thanks and acknowledgements

xi

Introduction

1

(1)

Why we wrote this book

1

(1)

Who this book is for

2

(1)

What a mentor is

3

(2)

The organisation of the chapters

5

(1)

The organisation of the activities

6

(3)

Language note

9

(1)

Part I Mentor course principles and practice

10

(29)

Basic concepts

10

(23)

Learning

10

(1)

Teaching

11

(1)

Teacher education

12

(6)

Goals of learning to teach

13

(1)

The dynamic interplay of practice and theory

13

(2)

Teacher education programmes

15

(1)

Interteaching

16

(2)

Learning mentoring

18

(5)

Towards a course design

19

(2)

Helpful relationships

21

(1)

Course aims and objectives

22

(1)

Teaching mentoring

23

(10)

Training methodology

24

(1)

The role of the course leader: the importance of modelling and congruence

25

(8)

Course procedures

33

(6)

Introduction

33

(1)

Reflection grids

33

(1)

The feedback dialogue

34

(2)

Random pairing and grouping activities

36

(1)

Peripherals

37

(1)

Music

37

(2)

Part II In-session activities

39

(89)

Lead-ins

39

(27)

Introduction

39

(2)

Activities

41

(1)

Adverbial walking

41

(1)

Blind adventure

42

(1)

Blind visitor

43

(1)

Compliments

44

(1)

Going back to your mentor

45

(2)

Group mime story

47

(1)

Group poem

48

(1)

Heads and tails

49

(1)

'I'm a person who...'

50

(1)

Mentor mix

51

(2)

Mentoring metaphors

53

(1)

Mirrors

54

(1)

Musical mentoring

55

(1)

Name hooks

56

(2)

Prisoners

58

(1)

Smelly socks group

59

(1)

The nature of help

60

(1)

There's a teddy on the table

61

(1)

Tick tock

62

(1)

What have you done?

63

(1)

What's the question?

64

(2)

Seeing clearly

66

(19)

Introduction

66

(1)

Contextual perspectives

66

(1)

Observer's perspectives

67

(1)

Personal or internal 'blinkers'

67

(1)

External 'blinkers'

68

(1)

The tendency to judge

68

(1)

Activities

69

(1)

Seeing: who, how, what and why?

69

(2)

Rabbits and snakes

71

(1)

Complex picture

72

(2)

Your money or...

74

(1)

Humans and aliens

75

(1)

'I heard, I saw, I noticed...'

76

(2)

Different observers

78

(2)

Focused observation

80

(1)

Helping the mentees see

81

(4)

Being observed

83

(2)

Challenging appropriately

85

(25)

Introduction

85

(1)

Activities

85

(1)

Butterflies

85

(2)

We don't listen when...

87

(1)

We listen when...

88

(1)

'That's exactly what I mean!'

89

(1)

Once I had a class...

90

(2)

Getting a clear picture

92

(1)

It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it

93

(2)

Question time

95

(1)

Considering questions

96

(1)

Excavating the iceberg

97

(4)

'I' to 'Why?'

101

(1)

Opposite scenarios

102

(1)

Transcript tasks

103

(2)

Styles of intervention

105

(1)

Beginner teacher development

106

(1)

Difficult mentoring moments

107

(3)

Role-plays

110

(10)

Introduction

110

(1)

Whole skill development

110

(1)

Time

111

(1)

Experimentation

111

(1)

Mentor style awareness

112

(1)

Empathising ability

112

(1)

Focus for reflective practice

112

(1)

Materials

113

(1)

Procedure and role-cards

114

(1)

Video-based mentoring role-plays - a standard procedure

114

(3)

Role-cards for specific role-plays

117

(1)

Lesson-planning role-cards

117

(1)

Full post-lesson discussion role-cards

117

(1)

Five-minute post-lesson discussion role-cards

117

(1)

Focused observation tasks for role-play observers

117

(1)

Supportive listening

117

(1)

Paraphrasing

118

(1)

I-statements

118

(1)

'Excavating'

118

(1)

Questions

118

(1)

Question factors

118

(2)

Teacher biography cards

118

(2)

Assessing teaching

120

(8)

Introduction

120

(1)

The dangers of outsider evaluation

120

(1)

The dangers of the tools of assessment

121

(2)

Activities

123

(1)

Beer bottles, carob pods, conkers or stones

123

(1)

Using check-lists

124

(2)

Bench-marking

126

(1)

Negotiated evaluation - role-play

127

(1)

Part III Projects and assignments

128

(25)

Observation tasks

128

(10)

Introduction

128

(1)

Tasks and activities

128

(1)

Self-observation

128

(3)

Peer-observation

131

(4)

Drawing conclusions

135

(3)

Reading tasks

138

(3)

Introduction

138

(1)

Sample reading task

138

(3)

Writing tasks

141

(12)

Introduction

141

(1)

Tasks and activities

141

(1)

Professional learning cycle

141

(4)

Development reports

145

(3)

Conclusion

148

(1)

Group disbanding activities

148

(2)

1. Art collection

148

(1)

2. Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em

149

(1)

Evaluating mentor courses

150

(1)

Evaluating mentors

150

(1)

Continuing mentor development

151

(1)

Conclusion

152

(1)

Photocopiable resources

153

(41)

References

194

(2)

List of figures

196

(1)

Appendices

197

(21)

Index

218

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