The book clearly defines the terms ‘coaching’ and ‘mentoring’ before looking at how coaching and mentoring are used in schools to develop teachers, and how these strategies can be used to help teachers to continue to develop to become confident classroom practitioners, as well as future leaders. The book also considers the key challenges and issues mentors and coaches might face. Each chapter explores each development phase of a teacher’s learning journey, covering how coaches and mentors can offer support and provide a safe supportive environment to allow teachers to continue to grow and develop.

The book clearly defines the terms ‘coaching’ and ‘mentoring’ before looking at how coaching and mentoring are used in schools to develop teachers, and how these strategies can be used to help teachers to continue to develop to become confident classroom practitioners, as well as future leaders. The book also considers the key challenges and issues mentors and coaches might face. Each chapter explores each development phase of a teacher’s learning journey, covering how coaches and mentors can offer support and provide a safe supportive environment to allow teachers to continue to grow and develop.

This concise book supplements the Routledge School Based Teacher Training Hub which you can find at www.routledgeteachertraining.com The Hub has been developed in conjunction with teacher training experts and offers busy trainees and their mentors focussed, accessible, evidence-informed guidance that will help develop skills and confidence for successful classroom practice. The chapters in this collection on the Hub explore one of the most challenging aspects of learning to teach in the secondary school: Managing behaviour. The Hub provides: -Online access to ten chapters, carefully selected from across the breadth of Routledge's publishing, written by experts in the field, to cover core skills and knowledge for effective behaviour management. -An introduction to each chapter, designed to show how the evidence applies to your setting and practice, and how you can build on the advice to develop and improve teaching. -A self-audit test, to help you pinpoint gaps and understand where you will most benefit from skills and confidence development. -Observation sheets, offering a framework that will help you focus and reflect when you're observing colleagues. -Short mentor meeting guides to structure initial and ongoing meetings with your mentor, to help you get the most out of these important relationships.