LSIS
Mentor Support Grants
Composite
Report: Mentor Support Projects were undertaken by eight different SWitch
member organisations and addressed a variety of aspects of mentoring in a range
of contexts, engaging over 800 practitioners from across the SWitch
constituencies (Work Based Learning, HE, FE, Adult & Community Learning,
specialist colleges). A range of information, approaches and materials have
been developed which would be of interest and value across the national CETT
network - and beyond.
Composite Report on LSIS funded mentoring
projects Word document
Bath Spa University: Teacher Educators
need support too.
Summary: Developing Teacher Education and supporting
Teacher Educators across the Lifelong Learning Sector
National
Star College: Mentoring Trainee Teachers -a Practical Guide.
Summary: The development of a bank of multi-media
resources to support mentors undertaking mentoring support with trainee or
newly qualified teachers
National
Star College report Word document
Enable
Assessment: Enabling Access to Effective Mentor Support
Summary:
create a mentoring strategy for new
and existing members of staff
Enable
Assessment: Report Word document
Avon &
Somerset Constabulary: Enabling access to effective mentor support
Summary:
1. Devised an effective mentoring route and mentor support pack
2. Investigated training qualifications for new trainers in Avon and Somerset
Constabulary .
3. Devised a course to develop Trainer Development Officers, in order to develop
our new trainers as well as support the mentoring system.
Avon &
Somerset Constabulary report Word document
LIFE
CHANGE UK
Mentoring
Challenging Behaviour
Provision
of an Ongoing Service to Trained Mentors in Challenging Behaviour
Life Change
UK report Word document
Life Change
UK report: provision of an ongoing service file
Bridgwater
College: Mentoring Support
Summary
This project has drawn up some practical
guidelines for enabling ITT providers to work with those mentors who for
reasons of geography or commitments are unable to attend face-to-face support
sessions.
Bridgwater
College report Word document
DCTPN:
Enabling Access to Effective Mentor Support
Summary:
It was the project's aim to highlight the need
for consistent, and appropriate mentor support for work based learner staff who
undertake ITT programmes.
Devon and
Cornwall Training Providers Network Case Study: The Use of Mentors amongst WBL
providers undertaking ITT qualifications in Devon and Cornwall.
This case study by Craig Marshall examines how well the learners being drawn
from private wbl training providers and from the wbl stables of the FE colleges
which offer it themselves are currently being supported through the mentor
dimension of the ITT.
DCTPN Case
Study Word document
Reaches the
Mentors that other Training Cannot Reach:
Initial teacher training (FE): On-Line mentor Training
An action research project by Robert Lawy and Kate Hellman.
The aim of the research has been to devise an
on-line mentoring programme that is accessible and available as an on-line
training programme for new and existing mentors in ITT (FE). The research has
been devised with a strong action orientation with the intention of achieving a
consensus model of mentoring practice that addresses the many and varied
expectations of the role as well as the diversity of individual needs and
circumstances of both mentors and trainees. This was achieved through an
iterative process whereby the programme has been modified in response to the
formal and informal discussions with users of the programmes.