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This book helps mentors working with beginning teachers of religious education to develop their own mentoring skills, and to provide the essential guidance their mentee needs as they navigate the rollercoaster of their first years in the classroom.
List of contents
Section 1: THE BIG PICTURE: MENTORING BEGINNING RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. 1. Models of Mentoring. 2. Subject-specific mentoring in religious education. 3. The changing nature of the mentor-beginning teacher relationship: from modelling to co-enquirers. 4. Understanding yourself: Positionality and mentoring. 5. A skills audit: your knowledge, skills and understanding as a mentor. SECTION 2: THE COMPLEX PICTURE: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND WORLDVIEWS. 6. What are we doing and how do we do it? A skills and knowledge audit for a multidisciplinary study. 7. Helping beginning teachers develop religious literacy through their classroom practice. 8. Mentoring beginning RE teachers in Faith Schools. 9. Developing beginning teachers’ understanding of knowledge and skills in the RE curriculum. 10. Supporting beginning teachers to audit and develop their knowledge, skills and understanding in religious education. SECTION 3: THE PRACTICAL PICTURE: MENTORING BEGINNING RELIGIOUS EDUCATION TEACHERS IN PRACTICE. 11. Helping beginning religious education teachers plan effective and creative lessons. 12. Supporting the delivery and evaluation of lessons. 13. Observing beginning religious education teachers’ lessons. 14. Post-observation discussions and target setting. 15. Supporting Beginning Teachers to teach GCSE and A level religious studies. 16. Supporting beginning religious education teachers in approaching controversial issues in the classroom. 17. Helping beginning religious education teachers develop their professional practice. Index.
About the author
Helen Sheehan is Course Leader for the Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in Religious Education, and responsible for all humanities PGCE provision (RE, History, Geography, Citizenship & PSHE and Social Sciences) at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
Summary
This book helps mentors working with beginning teachers of religious education to develop their own mentoring skills, and to provide the essential guidance their mentee needs as they navigate the rollercoaster of their first years in the classroom.
