How to be a Brilliant Mentor

Offers ideas to help support you in your work as a teacher-training mentor.

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How to be a Brilliant Mentor offers clear guidelines to enhance your mentoring, helping you to analyse your own practice and understand the complex and often ambiguous role of the mentor in school.


Considering why you might become a mentor and what you can gain from the experience, it provides practical strategies and direct problem-solving to help you move promising trainees quickly beyond mere competence. It explores:




collaborative working
giving effective feedback
emotional intelligence and developing and maintaining relationships
dealing with critical incidents
developing reflective practice
what to do if relationships beak down
the relationship between coaching and mentoring
mentoring newly qualified teachers as well as trainees.


Illustrated with the experiences of real trainees, How to be a Brilliant Mentor can be dipped into for innovative mentoring ideas or read from cover-to-cover as a short enjoyable course which will give you added confidence in your mentoring role.





The book is a companion to How to be a Brilliant Trainee Teacher, also by Trevor Wright.