Details for EDU566 Mentoring Pre-Service and Beginning Teachers

Effective mentoring is critical to the formation of future teachers and central to the mission of Christian education. This subject equips educators for their roles as mentors of pre-service and early career teachers. You will explore the nature, purpose, and phases of mentoring relationships within educational contexts. Engaging with biblical perspectives, emphasis is placed on the mentor’s character and competencies, as well as the systems and partnerships that support effective mentoring. You will examine mentoring as a form of servant leadership that contributes to both professional and spiritual growth, evaluating individual mentoring practices and designing an approach to mentoring for your school context. 

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: EDU566
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

None unless specified in affiliated course structure 

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Critically reflect on identity and practices of mentoring as part of one’s professional development and spiritual growth. 
2. Demonstrate specialised knowledge of the educational context for initial teacher education and early career teachers and the implications for mentoring.  
3. Critically analyse contemporary approaches, research, and biblical principles relevant to the practice of mentoring for pre-service teachers and early career teachers.  
4. Reflect on and evaluate the application of mentoring practices for a pre-service teacher or early career teacher.  
5. Design, plan for, and justify mentoring relationships for an educational context.   

Subject Content

1. The context, rationale, and biblical foundations for mentoring 
2. Exploring the nature of mentoring among other relationships (coaching, supervising, discipling, counselling)  
3. Character and competencies: The qualities of the mentor 
4. The phases of mentoring relationships 
5. Initial teacher education (ITE) and mentoring pre-service teachers
6. Induction and mentoring for early career teachers 
7. Mentoring systems and the role of school leadership 
8. Mentoring systems, partnerships, and collaboration 
9. Independent content review, research, and assessment preparation 

This course may be offered in the following formats

• ​Face to face on site (intensive) 
• ​​E-learning (online/asynchronous) 

Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

1. Critical reflective journal  (15%)
2. Report on experiences with mentoring (40%)
3. Designing a guide to mentoring (45%)

Prescribed Text

Glazzard, J. & Green, M. (2024). Effective mentoring in initial teacher education. Routledge. https://doi-org.alphacrucis.idm.oclc.org/10.4324/9781041055242