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Handbook for
Subject Specialist Observers / Mentors
Certificate in Education and PGCE programme
UCLan partnership
2012 /2013
Contents
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Welcome
Welcome to our teacher education partnership. This booklet is designed for subject specialists and mentors who will be supporting the development of teachers who are undertaking initial teacher training awards. The support you will provide will take a range of forms including observation of practice, feedback tutorials and advice about specific learning and teaching strategies for your area of expertise. The booklet contains information which will be useful in understanding the professional standards in the Lifelong Learning Sector, and how these relate to subject specialist areas. We also provide discussion on the roles and responsibilities of a mentor and the paperwork used across the programme to observe teaching practice.
Subject specific mentors have a very important part to play in the development of teaching and learning strategies in the trainee teacher’s curriculum area. New teachers to the profession often have very good academic knowledge about their subject area but they do not have the skills initially to transfer that knowledge successfully to a wide range of learners. The role of the mentor is to support mentees in this aspect of their ‘professional development’.
All teacher training providers are now required to embed the minimum core (literacy, language, numeracy, ICT) into the qualification framework offered and for this reason we also include this here and would like you to discuss how these functional skills can be made visible in your specialist area.
CPD
As a subject specialist mentor for the UCLan programmes you will be undertaking considerable CPD of your own as you help new trainees to deconstruct
Subject Specialist Observers / Mentors
Certificate in Education and PGCE programme
UCLan partnership
2012 /2013
Contents
All of the contents below are hyperlinked. Hold your cursor over the item you want and press Ctrl+Click to go to that section.
Welcome
Welcome to our teacher education partnership. This booklet is designed for subject specialists and mentors who will be supporting the development of teachers who are undertaking initial teacher training awards. The support you will provide will take a range of forms including observation of practice, feedback tutorials and advice about specific learning and teaching strategies for your area of expertise. The booklet contains information which will be useful in understanding the professional standards in the Lifelong Learning Sector, and how these relate to subject specialist areas. We also provide discussion on the roles and responsibilities of a mentor and the paperwork used across the programme to observe teaching practice.
Subject specific mentors have a very important part to play in the development of teaching and learning strategies in the trainee teacher’s curriculum area. New teachers to the profession often have very good academic knowledge about their subject area but they do not have the skills initially to transfer that knowledge successfully to a wide range of learners. The role of the mentor is to support mentees in this aspect of their ‘professional development’.
All teacher training providers are now required to embed the minimum core (literacy, language, numeracy, ICT) into the qualification framework offered and for this reason we also include this here and would like you to discuss how these functional skills can be made visible in your specialist area.
CPD
As a subject specialist mentor for the UCLan programmes you will be undertaking considerable CPD of your own as you help new trainees to deconstruct