Initial Mentor Training HUDCETT

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Initial Mentor TrainingHUDCETT

• Aims
• Explore the subject specialist mentoring process
• Investigate the role of the subject specialist
  mentor
• Consider issues involved in an initial subject
  specialist mentoring meeting

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Initial Mentor TrainingHUDCETT

• A requirement for subject specialist mentors
• Satisfactory completion recorded on the subject
  specialist mentor database
• Regarded as a minimum
• Subject specialist mentors expected to undertake
  further professional development as part of their
  individual Continuing Professional Development
  (CPD) and will be encouraged to complete mentor
  qualifications

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Initial Mentor TrainingHUDCETT

• Self evaluation - minimum subject specialist
  mentor profile
• All ITT trainees are required to identify an
  appropriate subject specialist mentor, as per the
  requirements of the DfES and as identified in
  Equipping Our Teachers for the Future (DfES
  2004).
• Self evaluation against the minimum subject
  specialist mentor profile

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Initial Mentor TrainingHUDCETT

• Self evaluation - desirable subject specialist
  mentor profile
• Desirable subject specialist mentor profile will
  be used as a basis for the development of subject
  specialist mentors.
• Self evaluation against the desirable subject
  specialist mentor profile will determine
  opportunities for personal and professional
  development to feed into an action plan.

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Initial Mentor TrainingHUDCETT

• Personal skills self evaluation
• Assess your own potential as a subject specialist
  mentor by indicating ? on the continuum whether
  each item listed is a strength or an area
  identified for further development.
• Feeds into action plan for personal and
  professional development.

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Initial Mentor TrainingHUDCETT

• Mentoring issues
• Read the list of comments about mentoring and
  check each one true or false.

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Initial Mentor TrainingHUDCETT

• Mentor Experienced and trusted adviser (OED)
• Origin in Homers Odyssey?
• When he was departing to fight in the Trojan
  Wars, Odysseus asked Mentor to look after his
  household and teach his son, Telemachus.
  Odysseus was away for 10 years, during which time
  Mentor fulfilled his promise of care.

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Initial Mentor TrainingHUDCETT

• Mentoring Means
• Jot down one word answers
• What is a subject specialist mentor?
• What is subject specialist mentoring?

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Initial Mentor TrainingHUDCETT

• What are the benefits of mentoring
• For the subject specialist mentor?
• For the trainee?
• For the organisation?

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Initial Mentor TrainingHUDCETT

• Questions a subject specialist mentor might ask
• What do I want from the subject specialist
  mentoring process?
• What can I bring to the subject specialist
  mentoring process?
• Whom do I know who would benefit from the
  process?
• What can I offer them?
• What am I looking for in return?

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Initial Mentor TrainingHUDCETT

• Initial Meeting
• Clips
• Points for discussion

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Initial Mentor TrainingHUDCETT

• Action plan
• Based on the training today, you can now start to
  think about your action plan for further personal
  and professional development

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Initial Mentor TrainingHUDCETT

• Subject Specialist Mentor Handbook
• Handy reference guide to ITT awards, the role of
  the subject specialist mentor etc
• FAQs both subject specialist mentor and trainee
  frequently asked questions