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In this section, you will find a number of articles which have been written to help you develop your skills and knowledge as a teacher educator in the professional practice 'Supporting teachers’ ongoing professional development'. All of the content you will find here is insightful and full of ideas to support your work in a variety of aspects related to teacher education. Further publications, webinar recordings and conference presentations for this practice can be found in our 'Find other content' section.

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Introduction to supporting and mentoring teachers

Find out more about what supporting and mentoring teachers involves. You can also try out some reflective tasks to develop your mentoring skills.

How developing interpersonal skills can help us to make positive changes in schools

In this article Karen Waterston explores how building relationships, thinking critically and increasing motivation can be used to make positive changes.

Adapt and Thrive

One of the most interesting heroes in Marvel's Universe is Doctor Strange, a hero who can manipulate time and use it to his own benefit seeing the present, past and future at the same time, an ability that most, if not all teachers, would like to possess during the Covid-19 times.

Reflective talk: making conversation a tool for learning

Watch a recording of Martyn Clarke's webinar for teacher educators, looking at reflective talk.

Mentoring teachers and trainers: a recipe for successful programmes

In this webinar recording, Nelson Arditto and Nora Touparlaki explore ways of making mentoring programmes successful.

Webinar for teacher educators: Noticing in mentoring – what do we do with what we notice?

This webinar is aimed at teacher educators who are involved in mentoring colleagues. The presenter, Doina Fleanta, explores the skill of 'noticing'.

Making mentoring a meaningful continuing professional development experience

In this webinar recording, Sarah Priestley looks at key steps and effective tools to use when mentoring and supporting teachers.

What is ‘continuing professional development’?

This article is an extract from the British Council publication, ‘Innovations in the continuing professional development of English language teachers’. In this interesting overview, the editor, David Hayes, looks at how we might define the term 'continuing professional development'.

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