I convene a Special Interest Group for the IPDA on mentoring in ITTE and our next meeting is on the 28th January 6pm to 7:30pm. We have a couple of volunteers who are going to present about their work in this area. Please share. Details can be found here ipda.org.uk/mentoring-in...

Lovely session with my primary trainee teachers this morning, linking educational theorists to their practice and helping them to explore (and critique) curriculum structures in their schools. It is inspiring to see them growing into critically reflective and reflexive teachers.

In the secondary phase, how do you develop the understanding of the form tutor role in the trainee teacher? Are they carefully matched to be a co-tutor with an experienced form tutor? Should the co-tutor be in a different subject area? What are your thoughts? #ITT #professionallearning

With trainee teachers returning to placement next week, how are you going to be welcoming them back? Have they experienced the start of term PD day before? Who is going to be taking them under their wing? If you are mentoring a new trainee, how are you going to help them to settle in? #ITT

One of the best things about working with trainee teachers is seeing them in action in schools. We are working with Marjorie McClure school this year and this fella is here to greet visitors.

Light reading for a Sunday.... The joys of Grounded theory and coding frameworks.

Well, Saturday brings some time to do some more work on my Doctorate. Today brings some analysis of preliminary work on factors that enable and impact on personal capacity to mentor the way lead mentors want to. Also exploring the support mechanisms around lead mentors.

How do we make ITT mentoring manageable and enjoyable for teachers? What are your thoughts?

Building a pipeline of future teachers starts early. Really happy to be back at Chislehurst School for Girls for their careers morning, talking about #teaching as a career.

I am interested in connecting with people that want to explore #mentoring in #ITTE. I have linked a blog that I wrote for IPDA on developing and sustaining PLCs in a SCITT. ipda.org.uk/developing-a...

I have started a Special Interest Group on mentoring in ITTE for IPDA members and would love to invite people to join. If you want to find out more: ipda.org.uk/mentoring-in...