Full Description
Mentoring Physical Education Teachers in the Secondary School helps trainee and newly qualified mentors of physical education teachers in both developing their own mentoring skills and providing the essential guidance their beginning teachers need as they navigate the roller-coaster of the first years of teaching. Offering tried and tested strategies based on the best research and evidence, it covers the knowledge, skills and understanding every mentor needs and offers practical tools such as lesson plans and feedback guides, observation sheets, and examples of dialogue with beginning physical education teachers.
Together with analytical tools for self-evaluation, this book is a vital source of support and inspiration for all those involved in developing the next generation of outstanding physical education teachers. Key topics explained include:
Roles and responsibilities of mentors
Developing a mentor-mentee relationship
Guiding beginning physical education teachers through the lesson planning process
Observations and pre- and post-lesson discussions
Filled with the key tools needed for the mentor's individual development, Mentoring Physical Education Teachers in the Secondary School offers an accessible guide to mentoring physical education teachers with ready-to-use strategies that support, inspire and elevate both mentors and beginning teachers alike.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Section 1 WHAT IS MENTORING?
Chapter 1 Models of mentoring
Gill Golder, Alison Keyworth and Clare Shaw
Chapter 2 Why mentoring?
Suzie Everley
Section 2 YOU AS A MENTOR
Chapter 3 About you as a mentor
Barbara Walsh and Julie Money
Chapter 4 Beginning physical education teachers' expectations of their mentors
Suzanne Everley and Jon Mills
Chapter 5 Roles and responsibilities of mentors
Julie Money and Barbara Walsh
Chapter 6 What knowledge, understanding and skills does a mentor of beginning physical education teachers need?
Julia Lawrence and Jane Woolliscroft
Section 3 WHAT A MENTOR DOES
Chapter 7 Developing a mentor-mentee relationship
Julia Lawrence and Jane Woolliscroft
Chapter 8 Collaborative Approaches to Mentoring
Peter Mellor
Section 4 SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF BEGINNING PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS' KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING
Chapter 9 What knowledge, skills and understanding do beginning physical education teachers need?
Will Katene
Chapter 10 Supporting beginning physical education teachers to become reflective practitioners.
Paul McFlynn
Chapter 11 How to mentor beginning physical education teachers through the lesson planning process
Jon Binney, Deb Barrett, Simon Green, Lucy Pocknell and Warren Smart
Chapter 12 Supporting beginning physical education teachers to deliver and evaluate their lessons
Sophy Bassett, Mark Bowler and Angela Newton
Chapter 13 Observing beginning physical education teachers teaching
Julia Lawrence, Karen Low and Joanna Phan
Chapter 14 Supporting beginning physical education teachers to observe movement to support pupil learning
Sophy Bassett and Angela Newton
Chapter 15 Holding pre and post-lesson observation discussions
Julia Lawrence
Chapter 16 Holding weekly briefings
Gill Golder, Jackie Arthur, Alison Keyworth and Julie Stevens
Chapter 17 Challenging beginning physical education teachers beyond mastery of the basics
Kerry Whitehouse
AND FINALLY .....
Susan Capel
