Mentoring in partnership: Empowering School Based Teacher Educators to develop their practice

Mentoring in partnership: Empowering School Based Teacher Educators to develop their practice

School: Moray House School of Education and Sport

Team: Dr Sue Chapman

Abstract

Mentoring is a key concept across the career phase in teaching, and is therefore crucial in developing practice in Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Understandings of mentoring vary widely and expected processes and outcomes of mentoring relationships are difficult to define and agree. Additionally, School Based Teacher Educators (SBTE) are often not empowered in their identities as Teacher Educators or viewed as partners in the ITE process. There is currently no compulsory programme of Professional Learning with which SBTE can engage to develop their skills in relation to mentoring as Teacher Educators. This project seeks to shape, design, produce and evaluate a resource for SBTE with SBTE through collaborating with PGDE Primary students and their SBTEs to further understand the nature of their mentoring experiences and associated Professional Learning requirements/opportunities.