BA Primary Education: Year 1 Mentor Curriculum

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Your Mentor Curriculum (Year 1 Mentors)

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Year 1 Mentor Curriculum Outline (in date order)
Item	Who?	Date	Duration
Module 1: What is a mentor? Online live session	New and non-certificated mentors	Wednesday 5th November 4 to 5pm	1 hr
Mentoring Refresher: Welcome back! Online live session	Only for mentors with certification.	Thursday 6th November 4 – 4:30pm	30 mins
Curriculum and ITaP Familiarisation Pre-recorded video + time to read handbooks and guidance	All mentors	Released on Wednesday 5th November	2 hr
Serial Visits Start
Module 2: Reflective Conversations Pre-recorded video	New and non-certificated mentors	Released on Wednesday 25th  February	45 mins
The Good Practice Guides Pre-recorded video + time to read the Guides	New and non-certificated mentors	Released on Wednesday 25th  February	45 mins
Module 3: Target Setting and Challenging your RPT Online live session	New and non-certificated mentors	Tuesday 21st April 4 to 5pm	1 hr
Block Placement Starts
Tutor Visit (Interim Progress Review)	All mentors	During the placement – arrange date with the tutor	2 hrs
Mentor Reflection Completion of 500-word online reflection	Necessary to gain certification	Released on Monday 8th June	Up to 1 hour

The Materials

1a. Recording of Mentor Module 1. If you were unable to attend the training session on Wednesday 5th November, please access it below. NB. This content is for new and non-certificated mentors.

The 3-minute Confirmation Form (Form 1a) to confirm you attended or have watched Mentor Module 1 is accessible here – Form 1a (Module 1) – Fill in form

The leaflet raising awareness of racial and ethnic microaggressions is here:

1b. Recording of Mentoring Refresher. If you were unable to attend the training session on Thursday 6th November, please access it below. NB. This content is for certificated mentors.

The 3-minute Confirmation Form (Form 1b) to confirm you attended or have watched the Mentoring Refresher is accessible here  Form 1b (Module 1)  – Fill in form

2. Curriculum Familiarisation Video (November). Please access the 45 minute screencast below. You will also need to access and read the following three documents once you have watched the video: 1. Year 1 School Experience Handbook (serial) 2025-26; 2. Year 1 Mentor Handbook (serial) 2025-26; and 3. ITaP 1 Teacher Guidance

These documents can be accessed by clicking the ‘back’ button at the top of this page and selecting the ‘documentation’ page.

The 3-minute Confirmation Form (Form 2) to confirm you have watched the video and read the handbooks and guidance is accessible here – Form 2 (Curriculum & ITaP 1 video + handbooks) – Fill in form

3. Mentor Module 2 – video (February) Please watch the 43 minute screencast below on Reflective Conversations. NB. This content is for new and non-certificated mentors.

The 3-minute Confirmation Form (Form 3) to confirm you have accessed and watched the video is accessible here – Year 1 Mentors – Form 3 (Module 2) – Fill in form

4. The Good Practice Guides – video (February) Please watch the 30 minute screencast below about The Good Practice Guides. NB. This content is for new and non-certificated mentors.

The 3-minute Confirmation Form (Form 4) to confirm you have accessed and watched the video is accessible here – Year 1 Mentors – Form 4 (GPG video) – Fill in form

5. Mentor Module 3 (April)

…… coming after Easter!

Additional Reading

1. Module 1 Related Reading. You can read the two articles below, considering the questions listed.

• The importance of a learning culture for teacher motivation (9 minute read)
• Cognitive load theory and teacher expertise: specific challenges for primary teachers (9 minute read)
• Autonomy can be one of the harder things for a trainee teacher to feel. How can we create opportunities for it?
• What are the benefits of a coaching model over more directive discussion?
• How can we reduce cognitive load for trainee teachers teaching subject content that was unfamiliar to them until they were assigned that lesson to teach?

2. Module 2 – Related Reading. You can read the two articles below, considering the questions listed.

• Teachers as Learners | Leeds Beckett University (5 minute read)
• An introduction to instructional coaching : My College (12 minute read)
• Reflect on the benefits of the three different coaching approaches outlined. Which will suit your RPTs best?
• How can we support RPTs to engage in ‘deliberate practice’? What are the barriers to this within a school timetable and how might they be overcome?
• Lofthouse discusses the need for teachers’ learning to be ‘authentic’, i.e. awake to the tensions of the role. What tensions might your RPT encounter in the area of classroom management and how could you help them learn from them?

3. Module 3 – Related Reading. Access the Initial Teacher Training Early Career Framework (ITTECF) to ensure you are familiar with the evidence-based practice it is advocating and that might inform the targets that you write. Access at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-and-early-career-framework