A Mentor's Guide to Supporting Your Prac Student | Teacher Strategy Vault

Most placement resources are written for the person on placement. This one's for you, the mentor.

You're handed a prac student and expected to just know what to do, and that's not something that comes automatically with years in the classroom.

This breaks it down into four things: how you set them up, how you scaffold, how you stretch their responsibility, and how you sum up feedback that's actually useful to them later.

What's included:

• The 4 S's framework explained (Set Up, Scaffold, Stretch, Sum Up), each with things to try

• A before-day-one and on-the-day list for Set Up

• A Scaffold section on modelling before handing a task over

• A sample independence plan for Stretch

• A Sum Up section on written feedback

• A closed-ended reflective question at the end of each section

• A common mentor mistakes list