This week Careerwise takes a look the mentoring and coaching of teachers by teachers. Is it a useful initiative or just training on the cheap? Peter Curran is joined by Barrie Joy, Head of Mentoring-Coaching at the Institute of Education and John Bangs, Head of Continuing Professional Development at the NUT, to discuss its uses and abuses. Mentoring of Initial Teacher Trainees has become a more crucial job with the advent of the Graduate Teacher Training Programme. We go to Yorkshire to see how schools there have created a support network for mentors, enabling them to share best practice and gain professional recognition for their work. And, Fiona Flynn visits Sweyne Park School in Essex, which has a thriving culture of co-coaching, to find out how teachers can use this to help them introduce new ideas into their teaching.

Video Series: CareerWise
Release Date 2006