Developed out of the Provincial Teacher Education and Development Committee (PTEDC), the Mentor Teacher course has been developed to capacitate classroom teachers as expert mentor teachers during student Teaching Practice in schools.

The Mentor Teacher course is collaborative project with the Cape Teaching and Learning Institute (CTLI) and the four public universities in the Western Cape and supports teachers in the mentoring and training of student teachers during the Teaching Practice component of their Initial Teacher Education.

The Mentor Teacher course is a blended learning programme presented online via Google Classroom and which runs over ten

weeks. It comprises of six units (see overview below) that includes information about student practice teaching, mentoring and coaching and the development and use of evaluative criteria for student teachers. Included are short activities that assist teachers to work through the course material and take a reflective stance in relation to themselves as mentor teachers in schools. The course presentation is supported by three Teams contact sessions that are held online.

The course is relevant for both primary and high school teachers as it presents a conceptualisation of mentoring that can be applied to supporting student teachers completing their teaching practice in different phases and grades.
Ideally groups of teachers from the same school should consider completing the course together as the course encourages schools and teachers work together to develop a school programme that can be used to support student teachers in each unique school context during their teaching practice.

Course Outline:

 

1. Contact Session 1

Course preparation/Pre-reading

Wednesday 24 July 2024

Online with MS Teams

17:00-18:30

 

1.1 Completion of Initial Understanding Task 17 July – 30 July 2024

 

1.2 Unit 1: Understanding Teaching Practice

 

2 Contact Session 2

Online with MS Teams

Tuesday 30 July

17:00-18:00

 

2.1 Unit 2: Mentoring and Coaching

31 July – 13 August

 

3. Contact Session 3

Online with MS Teams

Tuesday 13 August 2024

17:00-18:00

 

3.1 Unit 3: Developing evaluative criteria for student teachers (Part 1) 14 – 27 August 2024

 

3.2 Unit 4: Developing evaluative criteria for student teachers (Part 2)

 

4. Contact Session 4

Online with MS Teams

Tuesday 27 August

17:00-18:00

 

4.1 Unit 4: Developing evaluative criteria for student teachers (Part 2) (cont.)

28 August – 10 September

5 Contact Session 5

Online with MS Teams

Tuesday 10 September

17:00-18:00

 

5.1 Unit 5: Mentoring and Coaching in practice 11 September – 25 September 2024

 

6 Compulsory Contact Session 6

Face-to-face at CTLI

Thursday 26 September

Friday 27 September

CTLI 08:30-15:30

 

6.1 Unit 6: Concluding the course

Completion of Developed Understanding Task 27 - 30 September 2024

 

7 Completion and closing of Teacher Mentor Course Monday 30 September 2024

All Google Classroom activities submitted

 

All Google Classroom activities submittedINE SESSION- you will be requested to reapply for the next course.

 

REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/27up9GM5hj4Lkyhq5

 

Online part of course: TBA

Face-to-face at CTLI: 26 - 27 September 2024