Partnership with The University of Manchester

Welcome to the mentor resource site for The University of Manchester ITT Primary Partnership.

Here, you will find training videos, sample documents required for your role of mentor and relevant research informed content to support your knowledge as a mentor.

We want to do all we can to ensure that you are well trained and supported in what is a vitally important role within our ITT curriculum.

Please let us know if there is anything else that would assist your training to enable you to support and mentor your trainee more confidently by emailing teachereducation@manchester.ac.uk and we will do our best to provide it.

Quality Assurance

Partnership documents

The University of Manchester offers a range of resources for teachers, ranging from conferences, to resources developed by researchers from the institution

  1. Primary Core ITT Partnership Agreement
  2. Teacher events and resources
  3. Partnership Trainee and School Risk Protocol
  4. ITET Safeguarding Pack 2022-23
  5. Role of the Hub School

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Opportunities for our school partners

  1. CPD for school partners 

School Direct partnership

  1. School Direct Partnership Agreement
  2. School Direct Alliance Led Training Overview 2022-23
  3. School Direct Handbook

Area 1: Mentoring skills and the role

Unit 1: Understanding the Role of the Mentor

Mentor role and key documentation

  1. School Experience Mentor handbook 2022-23
  2. School Experience 1 booklet for trainees and mentors
  3. School Experience 2 handbook for trainees and mentors
  4. Styles of mentoring
  5. Weekly mentor feedback form (Appendix C)
  6. Weekly mentor feedback from example (Appendix C)
  7. Mentor role and responsibilities section

Supporting trainees – Pastoral and Wellbeing

  1. Top tips for mentors for week 1 with your trainee 
  2. Student Support Website
  3. Counselling Services
  4. Supporting trainee wellbeing – links to UoM support
  5. Concerns about a Trainee during School Experience
  6. Trainee wellbeing
  7. Supporting LGBTQI+ trainees

Unit 2: Understanding the Core Content Framework (CCF) for ITT

  1. Teachers' Standards Bookmark
  2. ITT Core Content Framework document
  3. ITT CCF - Our Visual Intent

 

Unit 3: Understanding the University's ITT curriculum

  1. Our Primary PGCE Curriculum 2022-23
  2. Curriculum Coverage, Semester 1 for Mentors – English, Maths, Science  
  3. Curriculum Coverage, Semester 1 for Mentors – Foundations Subjects 
  4. Curriculum Coverage, Semester 1 and 2 for Mentors – English, Maths, Science
  5. Curriculum Coverage, Semester 1 and 2 for Mentors – Foundation Subjects

Unit 4: Quality observations, deconstructing practice and providing quality feedback

  1. Weekly feedback meetings and forms (5 mins)
  2. Example weekly mentor feedback form (App C)
  3. Giving quality written feedback 

Unit 5: Assessing trainee progress and setting targets

Assessment

  1. Trainee Portfolio 2022-23
  2. Trainee Portfolio weekly log example
  3. Professional Development Formative Framework Statement
  4. Professional Development Framework Example 
  5. Target setting booklet
  6. The weekly mentor and trainee review meeting
  7. Lesson observation and target setting (11 mins)
  8. Assessing Trainees - Interim Reviews

Supporting Struggling Trainees

  1. Supporting a trainee who is not meeting their targets on school experience – Strand E
  2. Trainee Support Plan Form
  3. UoM 4 Stage Cause for Concern flowchart 22-23
  4. Supporting a struggling trainee
  5. Concerns about a trainee - having a difficult conversation, guidance to using the framework
  6. Challenging a high attaining trainee
  7. Managing a Difficult Conversation with a Trainee 

Area 2: Mentoring to support trainee subject and pedagogy

Unit 1: Supporting trainees - Setting high expectations and behaviour for learning

  1. Supporting trainees with behaviour and classroom management – Strand A   

Unit 2: Supporting trainees - Understanding how children learn

CPD - Cognitive Load Theory, How Children Learn

  1. Cognitive Load Theory
  2. Retrieval Practice
  3. Cognitive Load and Retrieval Practice Video  

Unit 3 – Supporting Trainees - Subject Knowledge - Planning and Teaching Effective Lessons

  1. Mentor Guidance – The Weekly Mentor/Trainee Review Meeting

Maths - Helping trainee teachers teach maths effectively

  1. Counting and calculating – supporting trainees on SE
  2. Maths - Aims of the NC and our Curriculum Content
  3. Aims of the curriculum and our curriculum content
  4. Counting and calculating curriculum content and helping trainees improve on SE 

English - Helping trainee teachers teach English effectively

  1. Curriculum content and helping trainees improve on SE
  2. Teaching Poetry
  3. English – Subject support – teaching poetry 
  4. Early reading – curriculum content and helping trainees improve on SE

Science - Helping trainee teachers teach science effectively

This video/audio talks about our science curriculum coverage so far in semester 1, the misconceptions that our trainee may have when teaching and how you as a mentor can support this:

  1. Science misconceptions and supporting trainees in teaching science (video)
  2. Science misconceptions and supporting trainees in teaching science (audio only)
  3. Mentor advice – practical science (video)
  4. Mentor advice – practical science (audio only)

General Planning

  1. Supporting trainees to work with and deploy teaching assistants effectively – Strand E
  2. Trainee Planning Bookmark
  3. Weekly plan – SE1 example plan
  4. English – SE1 lesson plan example 1
  5. English – SE1 lesson plan example 2
  6. Phonics – SE1 lesson plan example 1
  7. Phonics – SE1 lesson plan example 2
  8. Maths - SE1 lesson plan example 1 
  9. Maths – SE1 lesson plan example 2 
  10. Science – SE1 lesson plan example
  11. SE2 Weekly plan Maths – EXAMPLE

Unit 4 – Supporting Trainees – Understanding Assessment and Adaptive Teaching

  1. Supporting trainees to develop their assessment - Strand D 
  2. Example of daily lesson assessment – SE1
  3. SE2 Weekly assessment tracking – Maths example
  4. SE2 Assessment tracking – Science example

Unit 5 – Supporting Trainees – Monitoring Their Progress in Relation to Our Curriculum

  1. Trainee Overview of Curriculum Learning
  2. Mentor support – the interim reviews (link)
  3. Monitoring trainee progress against our curriculum – Semester 1
  4. Supporting a trainee to reflect upon and analyse their practice
  5. Supporting a trainee who is not meeting their targets on school experience – Strand E
  6. Assessing our trainees for QTS – overview 
  7. Teachers' Standards Bookmark