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Become an Outstanding Mentor: The Broader Picture

Take your mentoring skills into lesson observations, peer mentoring and pupils' resilience, so they help more than one person at a time.

  • 28 minutes
  • 5 modules
  • 0.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Use mentoring conversations to make lesson observations developmental
  • Set up peer mentoring or peer observation with clear training and boundaries
  • Agree confidentiality, and when a concern must go to safeguarding
  • Ask questions that build metacognition and resilience in pupils and staff
  • Keep a mentoring programme going once it has started

About this course

The habits a good mentor uses, like listening, asking and letting people find their own answers, work well beyond the weekly one-to-one. Used in a lesson observation, they make it something a teacher might ask for.

You'll be able to agree a focus before an observation and let the teacher tell the story of the lesson before anyone judges it. You'll know how to set up peer mentoring, whether it's a recently qualified teacher supporting a new one or Year 8s mentoring Year 7s. Mentors get proper training, clear boundaries and a route for any concern that has to go to safeguarding.

And you'll have the questions that help pupils and staff plan a task, notice where they're stuck and get going again. That's when mentoring starts to shape how a whole school works.

  • For middle leaders, senior leaders and teachers. All phases.

5 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    2 min

  2. Mentoring and lesson observations

    6 min

  3. Peer mentoring and peer observations

    10 min

  4. Mentoring, metacognition and resilience

    7 min

  5. Wrap up

    6 min