Special Topic: Mentoring Pre-service Teachers

Description

The early stages in a beginning teacher’s career provide an opportunity for mentoring to support the development of effective teaching practices. This online course provides a practice-based development in mentoring practices for supporting pre-service teachers. Effective mentors help build confidence, share knowledge practices (existing and new), and support with adapting to the demands of teaching and being a teacher. This course is for teachers who are new to, or in existing roles as mentors either as Associate Teachers, Mentor Teachers, or Practicum Lecturers who wish to gain or further develop their mentoring skills. The course is credit bearing at the post-graduate level and is relevant to those within the early childhood, primary or secondary sectors.