How to be a Brilliant Mentor - Developing Outstanding Teachers

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.