The Effective Mentoring Manual  has been designed to allow all prospective mentors to construct their own route to experienced and trusted counsellor status.

The emergence of the teacher as a mentor role within initial teacher education has been a relatively recent concept. Yet mentoring has become a fundamental feature of teacher development. The expansion of mentoring means that there has been a need to explore the challenges that have been created for teachers, their schools and the continuing professional development programmes that will provide the necessary knowledge, skills and training opportunities for teachers to become effective mentors. The Effective Mentoring Manual has been designed to allow all prospective mentors to construct their own route to experienced and trusted counsellor status. It enables you to:identify mentoring roles from personal experience and analyse models to decide which model, or combination of models, is likely to function best within your school explore a range of mentoring strategies and means of sharing good practice with colleagues including apprenticeship, competence and reflective models of mentoring identify the contribution which school-based teacher training can make to the professional and intellectual environment of all your teachers' working lives understand the provision of induction to allow your teachers to work successfully organise the tasks of mentors, including an explanation of the mentoring role apply a distinctively competence-based approach to initial and continuing teacher education.