Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Teaching Teachers: Strategies for Mentoring Student Teachers
This course has allowed you to develop your skills and knowledge as a mentor, reflecting on your roles and responsibilities and those of mentees. You have examined interpersonal skills, distinguished between positive and negative feedback and looked at how to support student teachers. This has included discussing and reflecting on models of feedback and developing strategies to help student teachers with their personal development, helping to empower student teachers.
5 weeks, 2 hours per week
Michael Lynch
Senior Lecturer
The University of Edinburgh
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop a range of strategies to support beginning teachers
- Develop their interpersonal skills and their ability to facilitate mentees’ critical reflection
- Examine how they can provide feedforward advice and feedback in a constructive manner
- Identify scaffolding strategies appropriate to support individual student teachers
- Empower student teachers and promote their learnacy
Syllabus
- Develop a range of emotional and psychological support strategies for beginning teachers.
- Build student teacher confidence and encourage the critical integration of practices whilst providing them with appropriate degrees of challenge.
- Hone interpersonal skills and the ability to facilitate mentees’ critical reflection.
- Apply feedforward advice and feedback constructively
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Issued on 28th October 2026
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