Solo mentoring

If you have sole responsibility for history trainees within a school-centred initial teacher training (SCITT) scheme or find that your partnership programme leaves all the history-specific elements of the training to you as the school-based mentor, you will need to think about planning and structuring your trainee’s ‘curriculum’. Obviously they will learn a great deal through their classroom experience (and that experience will help to shape their priorities at any particularly point), but there are so many different issues about which beginning teachers need to learn and so many competing priorities that you need to structure a programme that allows them to focus their attention on specific issues over time, rather than constantly trying to work on everything at once. Resources that you will find particularly helpful in mapping out such a programme include the Survive and Thrive guides and the HITT units. You may also find it helpful to use other sections of the site – particularly the Principles of Planning and Curriculum Issues – to help you to decide on your key priorities and the order in which you will tackle them.  The Move Me On collection offers advice from experienced mentors responding to specific difficulties faced by a history trainee and many of them will direct you to further useful resources.

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