Improving school based training

24th January 2012

 5 Strategies to Improve School Based Mentoring of Trainees
  • Mentors observing each-others’ trainees
  • Trainee planning a lesson which mentor delivers. Trainee observes  and the two reflect together
  • Mentors planning a lesson for trainee to deliver. Reflect on differences between how they’d do it
  • Trainees observing an outstanding teacher with their mentor and then analysing what happens
  • Mentors observing their trainee in contrasting school placement

Improving Contrasting  and AlternativeSchool Placement Brokerage

  • Contrasting and Alternative School placements should respond to individual trainees’ particular training needs
  • Schools in Greater London can share their placement needs and what they can provide in this google doc.

New QTS standards

  • From September 2012 trainees will be expected to meet the new QTS standards