2 Supporting your beginner teacher in the early stages

Learning to teach, or inducting a new teacher into a school, require mentoring roles that lie along a continuum – from close and careful support and challenge at the start, to being there as a back-up and an encourager as the beginner teacher moves towards autonomy. Mentoring calls for different skills at different times and a consideration of the structure of learning opportunities over time, in order to give the beginner teacher new challenges and responsibilities as their expertise develops.