1. Mentor training

2. What has been your trainee’s biggest success?
How well is your trainee prepared to teach as they approach the last phase of their training?
Do you know the impact of your trainee’s teaching on pupil progress?
What areas of your trainee’s teaching still needs development and how are you supporting this?

3. Some things to try………
To promote behaviour management skills
Jointly observing a teacher who is developing their behaviour management skills themselves to discuss techniques used
Jointly observe the class with a different teacher to observe how they are managing their behaviour
Support the delivery of the ‘sabotage lesson’ (Teacher toolkit –Paul Ginnis) and monitor progress of the class
To promote assessment skills
Co-plan the assessment within the lesson for each activity and discuss the possible information which might come out of this
Observe sections of the lesson and give feedback
Parrot on the shoulder style coaching to model and prompt afl within the lesson and show the trainee how to use this
Discuss marking and strategies to promote feed-forwards and review
Check they have marked their books !
To promote good differentiation
Support the trainee to plan differentiated homework – model differentiation for them
Co-plan differentiated activities
Get trainees to compare exam questions on the same content from GCSE and A level

4. Aims
To reflect on the progress of our trainees so far and on actions planned to support them further To understand the OFSTED process and prepare for aspects of our first visit

5. The Ofsted process
A two part inspection
Part 1 within the Summer term of the training year
Part 2 in the Autumn term of the NQT year
Notification of inspection will come in (usually) on Thursday by 9:30am and there will be 2 working days notice.
Inspectors will arrive on the Tuesday following the phone call.
Judgements will be made about the provision under the following headings:
Outcomes for trainees
Quality of training across the partnership
Leadership and management of the partnership
Overall effectiveness
There will be no judgement made until the part 2 has been completed.

6. During the inspection inspectors might:
Gather evidence and scrutinise paperwork
Compare their observations with records of performance and other observations
Talk to trainees about their teaching
Seek trainee’s views about their training and their engagement in their own professional development
Look at trainee portfolio
Observe a trainee teach with the mentor and watch the mentor give feedback
Meet with mentors
Meet with trainee committees
Meet with strategic committees

7. You have been given a copy of the Ofsted briefing 4 with proposed Ofsted questions on it. Within pairs come up with answers to these questions.

8. How has our partnership ensured these areas are effective?
Some key areas :
Subject knowledge
Recruitment and selection
Numeracy and literacy
How well prepared the trainee is to teach/ impact on pupil progress
How has our partnership ensured these areas are effective?

9. Some key things
Subject knowledge is enhanced in three ways:
The subject mentor during mentor meetings (which is why our lesson observation pro-forma has a section about subject knowledge)
Through the subject input from the Princes’ Teaching institute or NELTA training
Through the subject seminars which are designed to encourage mentors to work with us and the trainee on aspects of subject knowledge that are difficult.
Evidence of pupil progress which will need to be used to make judgements about ability to teach:
Test or assessment scores
SIMS data
Marking in books and feed-forwards
Assignments
Literacy and numeracy skills are enhanced in the following ways;
A full extended study day on literacy and numeracy
Through selected toolkit sessions which work on oracy, using your voice
During subject mentoring and subject seminars to promote the use of literacy and numeracy in your subject

10. Salaried trainees were interviewed at the employing school with a member of their departmental team and/or SLT. The interview process included the following:
Group task (if there was a group)
Written task
Lesson experience/ lesson observation
Formal interview
Mini-lesson episode presentation