Presentation for Week 2 Webinar 25th January 2017: Modelling & Developing Professional Relationships, led by Helen Wriglesworth, with David Darwent and Richard Pountney

1. Week 2 Webinar
Helen Wriglesworth, David Darwent and Richard Pountney
Wednesday 25th January 2017 19.00-20.00

2. Course Team

3. Course objectives
Having completed the course you will be able to:
• Identify the mentor standards and understand their relevance
and application to mentoring practice.
• Understand the set of knowledge and skills that constitute
competence in mentoring and how these can be developed.
• Reflect critically on your own mentoring practice and
understand how to identify gaps and weaknesses in your
current practice and that of others and to use this knowledge
to improve mentoring practice.
• Participate effectively in professional communities of mentors
in order to share individual professional practice and to draw
from the practice of others.

4. Curriculum
• Week 1 Introduction and induction:
• Week 2 Modelling & Developing Professional
Relationships: Mentor standard 1 – Personal Qualities
• Week 3 Developing Mentees’ Professionalism: Mentor
standard 3 - Professionalism
• Week 4 Supporting & Guiding Mentees: Mentor
standard 2 – Teaching
• Week 5 Mentors, Mentees and Professional
Development: Mentor standard 4 - Self-development
and working in partnership

5. E-tivities
To achieve the week Badge:
• Webinar task: Helen's cat's name is ...
• Discussion Forum: describe a critical incident for a
mentee and how you were able to guide him/her
towards constructive learning points
• Top Tips: post your top tip onto the Padlet board
• Answer Garden: What kind of examples have the most
impact on mentees?
• Tweet Chat (optional): #mentorshooc2 Thursday 7-8pm
• Reflective Task: self-evaluate your mentor skills and
action plan

6. Mentor Standard 1: Personal Qualities
• be approachable, make time for the trainee, and
prioritise meetings and discussions with them;
• use a range of effective interpersonal skills to
respond to the needs of the trainee;
• offer support with integrity, honesty and respect;
• use appropriate challenge to encourage the
trainee to reflect on their practice; and
• support the improvement of a trainee’s teaching
by modelling exemplary practice in planning,
teaching and assessment.

7. Being Approachable, making time for your mentee,
and prioritising meetings and discussions
• Be positive, open and confident
• Pre-plan weekly meetings
• Take a vested interest in your mentee
Top Tips
• Keep a record of meetings
• Lead by example
What is your top tip?

8. Top tip for establishing trusting relationships
between mentor and mentee?

9. Using a range of effective interpersonal skills to
respond to the needs of the mentee
Kolb’s Learning Style
Inventory
Traits of a successful mentor
• Treat every mentee as an individual
• Address individual learning needs
• Be aware of how personality traits impact
on mentee relationships
Emotional Intelligence
•

10. Offering support with integrity, honesty and
respect.
Be open to the challenges and pressures
of mentoring but the mutual benefits
Integrity Honesty Respect
Model Issues Stage of
development
Moral purpose Development Learning style
Fairness Progress Time needed
Collaboration Own experiences Challenges
Sincerity Support required Feelings

11. Using appropriate challenge to encourage the
mentee to reflect on their practice
Use support to develop skills of self-evaluation and reflection
• Open questioning
• Focussed meetings
• Track progress
• Praise and acknowledgement
Gibbs’ Reflective Practice Model

12. Supporting the improvement of a mentee’s
teaching by modelling exemplary practice in
planning, teaching and assessment.
• Good role model
• Accept the challenges
• Address mentees learning style
• Involvement of colleagues
• Lesson study (and IRIS)

13. What next?
• Week 3 led by Adrian Fearn: Developing
Mentees' Professionalism (workbook released
at the weekend)
• if and when you are ready to submit week 1
and week 2 workbooks see guidance and/or
email mentorshooc@shu.ac.uk
• Any questions?