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Mentoring Languages Teachers in the Secondary School

A Practical Guide

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Mentoring Languages Teachers in the Secondary School helps mentors of beginning languages teachers in both developing their own mentoring skills and providing the essential guidance beginning teachers need as they navigate the roller-coaster of the first years of teaching. Offering tried and tested strategies based on the best research and evidence, it covers the knowledge, skills and understanding every mentor needs and offers practical tools such as lesson plans, feedback guides, observation sheets and examples of dialogue with beginning languages teachers.Research suggests that the role of the mentor is highly influential to the beginning teacher, and this book considers language-specific aspects as well as a focus on the holistic well-being of the beginning teacher. Together with analytical tools for self-evaluation, this book is a vital source of support and inspiration for all those involved in developing the next generation of outstanding languages teachers. Key topics explained include the following:Roles and responsibilities of mentorsThe subject knowledge and understanding required by beginning languages teachersThe lesson planning processGuidance on teaching core skills of reading, writing, speaking and listeningDevelopment opportunities for languages teachersObservations and pre- and post-lesson discussionsFilled with the key tools needed for the mentor’s individual development, this new text offers an accessible guide to mentoring languages teachers with ready-to-use strategies that support, inspire and elevate both mentors and beginning teachers alike.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-05-21
Mått174 x 246 x 18 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMentoring Trainee and Early Career Teachers
Antal sidor256
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032801032

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SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO MENTORINGIntroductionChapter 1. Models of MentoringChapter 2. Understanding yourself and how your experiences influence your approach to mentoringChapter 3. What makes a good mentor in modern languages? How to help beginning teachers flourishSECTION 2: GETTING STARTED AS A MENTORChapter 4. Setting your mentee up for successChapter 5. Supporting emerging languages teachers: Key principles to guide the journeyChapter 6. Supporting the integration of beginning modern languages teachers into the community of practiceSECTION 3: DEVELOPING BEGINNING LANGUAGES TEACHERS’ PEDAGOGICAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND UNDERSTANDINGChapter 7. Supporting beginning languages teachers to analyse teaching that they observe Chapter 8. Supporting the lesson planning process of beginning languages teacherChapter 9. Helping beginning modern language teachers to analyse their own planning and teachingChapter 10. Observing your mentee’s teaching and giving written feedback Chapter 11. Holding pre- and post- lesson discussions with beginning modern languages teachersChapter 12. Accelerating Mentorship: Coaching Insights for Empowering Mentor MeetingsSECTION 4: PROVIDING EFFECTIVE SUPPORT FOR BEGINNING LANGUAGES TEACHERS’ WELLBEINGChapter 13. Managing Wellbeing and Workload with Beginning Languages TeachersChapter 14. Supporting a beginning languages teacher who is struggling: a range of scenarios SECTION 5: SUPPORTING LANGAUGES TEACHERS AS THEY PROGRESS THROUGH LATER STAGES OF THEIR TRAINING AND BEYONDChapter 15. Engaging with and in research for classroom practice: Supporting the beginning languages teacherChapter 16. Developing the wider professional role of the beginning languages teacher Chapter 17. Continuing to mentor beginning languages teachers beyond their initial teacher training Chapter 18. Supporting expert languages teachers: educative mentoring for successAppendix 1Appendix 2Appendix 3