Educating teachers matters: Mentoring in education

Much research has found that mentorship can be a powerful means of enhancing professional learning, development, well-being and retention, yet for various reasons does not always bring about its desired outcomes. One explanation for this is the prevalence of ‘judgementoring’ (Hobson & Malderez, 2013), a restrictive and excessively directive and evaluative form of mentoring – if it is mentoring at all. 

The ONSIDE mentoring framework (Hobson 2016) was designed as a research-informed antidote to judgementoring and has been found to leverage desirable outcomes. Yet its enactment as a uni-directional mentoring relationship might impede its positive impact and neglect the potential for reciprocal learning and growth (Mullen, 2016). 

In this seminar, Andrew will outline and report on the added value of the enactment of ONSIDE as a bi-directional, co-mentoring relationship.

This event will be particularly useful for teachers, researchers and policy makers.

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