Mentor courses : a resource book for trainer-trainers

Mentor course principles and practice : Basic concepts : Learning ; Teaching ; Teacher education ; Goals of learning to teach : The dynamic interplay of practice and theory ; Teacher education programmes ; Interteaching. Learning mentoring : Towards a course design ; Helpful relationships ; Course aims and objectives. Teaching mentoring : Training methodology ; The role of the course leader: the importance of modelling and congruence

Course procedures : Reflection grids ; The feedback dialogue ; Random pairing and grouping activities ; Peripherals ; Music

Lead-ins : Adverbial walking ; Blind adventure ; Blind visitor ; Compliments ; Going back to your mentor ; Group mime story ; Group poem ; Heads and tails ; ''I'm a person who...'' ; Mentor mix ; Mentoring metaphors ; Mirrors ; Musical mentoring ; Name hooks ; Prisoners ; Smelly socks group ; The nature of help ; There's a teddy on the table ; Tick tock ; What have you done? ; What's the question?

Seeing clearly : Introduction : Contextual perspectives ; Overserver's perspectives ; Personal or internal 'blinkers' ; External 'blinkers' ; The tendency to judge. Activities ; Seeing: who, how, what and why? ; Rabbits and snakes ; Complex picture ; Your money or... ; Humans and aliens ; ''I heard, I saw, I noticed...'' ; Different observers ; focused observation ; Helping the mentees see ; Being observed

Challenging appropriately : Butterflies ; We don't listen when ; We listen when ; ''That's exactly what I mean!'' ; Once I had a class... ; Getting a clear picture ; It's not what I say, it's the way you say it ; Question time ; Considering questions ; Excavating the iceberg ; ''I'' to ''why?'' ; Opposite scenarios ; Transcript tasks ; Styles of intervention ; Beginner teacher development ; Difficult mentoring moments. Role-plays : Whole skill development : Time ; Experimentation ; Mentor style awareness ; Empathising ability. Focus for reflective practice ; Materials ; Procedure and role-cards ; Video-based mentoring role-plays - a standard procedure : Role cards for specific role-plays. Lesson-planning role-cards ; Full post-lesson discussion role-cards ; Five-minute post-lesson discussion role cards : Focused observation tasks for role-play observers. Supportive listening ; Paraphrasing ; I-statements : ''Excavating'' ; Questions ; Question factors : Teacher biography cards

Assessing teaching : The dangers of outsider evaluation ; The dangers of the tools of assessment ; Beer bottles, carob pods, conkers or stones ; Using check-lists ; Bench-marking ; Negotiated evaluation - role play

Observation tasks : Tasks and activities ; Self-observation ; Peer-observation ; Drawing conclusions

Reading tasks : Sample reading task

Writing tasks : Professional learning cycle ; Development reports

Conclusion : Group disband activities : Art collection ; Big flea have little fleas upon their backs to bite'em. Evaluating mentor courses ; Evaluating mentors ; Continuing mentor development