PGTA Mentor Training Hub

To access your school documentation for the PGTA, please click on the following link: School Documentation

This page outlines the mentor curriculum for employing school mentors for the Postgraduate Teacher Apprenticeship Programme (PGTA).

Our Mentor Training Curriculum has been designed to ensure that, ‘all mentors receive sufficient training to ensure they can effectively support a trainee teacher to obtain the knowledge and skills they need to successfully complete their ITT school placement,’ (DfE, 2024). At the same time, it has also been designed with mentor workload in mind and thus it takes prior mentor training into account so that all training is purposeful and is a manageable commitment.

As per the DfE 2025 guidance, new mentors are able to claim for up to 16 hours of training and those who mentored during 2024-2025, up to 6 hours of refresher training. Please do ensure you complete any forms alongside each module to confirm completion; this will aid us in checking the hours for you to claim at the end of the year from the DfE.

For all videos – please scroll to the bottom of the page.

Training modules

Core content for all who mentor this academic year, including certified mentors
Item	How?
Curriculum and Programme Familiarisation	Pre-recorded ScreencastOptional online drop-in Q&A: Thursday 9th October 2025   4-5pm Microsoft Teams Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 370 954 781 078 1 Passcode: xj7HY9Z7
Tutor Visit during placement (Interim Review and Progress Review)	Agree date with tutor during review windows – online and face to face
Engagement with mentor bulletins / documentation	Emailed out regularly

Mentor training core curriculum*
Item	How?
1. Implementing the ITE Curriculum – Target setting and observing	Pre-recorded video Completion form:https://forms.office.com/e/uJF2xq73vU
2. Mentor knowledge and skills – Observation feedback and constructive conversations	Pre-recorded video Completion form: https://forms.office.com/e/q7CH3JWdiW
3. Mentor knowledge and skills: Stretching your Apprentice	Pre-recorded video Completion form: https://forms.office.com/e/TcwzP9ucVM

* Please note, certificated mentors are those who gained our new certification in 2024-25 or who held Level 3 certification under our old scheme. Alternatively, if you have completed training as an ECT mentor, or gained an NPQLTD or completed mentor training in 2024-25 with another ITE provider, then you are certificated via that route.

Additional optional content

Optional content
Item	How?
1. Mentor knowledge and skills – Developing a professional identity	Pre-recorded video Completion form: https://forms.office.com/e/G5HkwvvSna
2. Understanding trainee knowledge and development – Being a mentor in your school	Document to support meeting (see below) Completion form: https://forms.office.com/e/WFnfcLn3fD
3. Mentor knowledge and skills: The impact cycle	Pre-recorded video Completion form: https://forms.office.com/e/hDR4YYvVux

Content for those wishing to gain mentor certification Please complete all modules in the ‘Content for new and non-certified mentors’ and ‘Optional content for new mentors’ tables above in addition to the modules below
Item	How?
Mentor audit and reflection	Self-study Completion form: https://forms.office.com/e/rLnuuhVRJZ
Mentor reflection Completion of 500-word online reflection	Self-study Completion form: https://forms.office.com/e/AU7LYjGPsN

Core Curriculum:

1. Implementing the ITE Curriculum – Target setting and observing

2. Mentor knowledge and skills: Observation, feedback and constructive conversations

Please see supporting clips below that are referenced in the training. Slide 16 refers to clip 1, and slide 44 refers to clip 2.

Optional Content:

1. Mentor knowledge and skills – Developing a professional identity

2. Understanding trainee knowledge and development – Being a mentor in your school

Use the following document to support a meeting between the Apprentice, Mentor and ITTCO:

3. Mentor knowledge and skills: The impact cycle