High-quality mentoring is central to effective Initial Teacher Training (ITT). As expectations surrounding mentor development continue to evolve, ITT organisations require training solutions that are flexible, evidence-informed and responsive to the diverse needs of their mentors.
NASBTT’s Mentor Development Modules (MDMs) have been specifically designed to support ITT organisations in developing high-quality mentors, while enabling providers to maintain complete control over their own mentor training programmes.
Our Mentor Development Modules offer a flexible suite of training resources that can be embedded within existing elements of your mentor training, enabling you to personalise your mentor training according to your mentors’ needs.
High-Quality, Research-Informed Content
Written by expert practitioners from across the sector, the modules offer interactive and engaging content, including:
- Videos
- Reflection activities
- Self-evaluation exercises
- Research-informed guidance and practical strategies
Modules are available across three developmental levels:
- Introducing
- Embedding
- Refining
This structured approach enables mentors to engage with learning appropriate to their experience and stage of professional development.
The extensive suite of modules covers a broad range of themes, including instructional coaching, SEND, diversity, equity and inclusion, difficult conversations, reflective practice, research engagement, wellbeing, pastoral care and leadership.
Personalised Professional Development
A key feature of the MDM’s is the optional Diagnostic Assessment.
Taking approximately five minutes to complete, this short assessment helps organisations provide personalised CPD by recommending appropriate modules based on a mentor’s existing knowledge and experience. Both mentors and organisations receive tailored recommendations, supporting targeted and efficient professional development.
Overview and Benefits
The Mentor Development Modules provide organisations with much more than training content.
- Designed to support organisations to meet mentoring requirements
- High-quality training to enhance organisation’s existing mentor training
- Flexible delivery (online self-directed study, taught delivery or a hybrid of the two)
- Modules are available at three levels to support mentor experience and development need
- Written by expert practitioners in the sector
- Bitesize modules to support busy lives
- Interactive and engaging content – including videos, self-evaluation activities and reflection exercises
- Cost effective solution providing economies of scale
- Organisation-level oversight, analytics, tracking and reporting
- Customisable and tailored to meet organisation needs
- Diagnostic assessment to inform training needs and module choices
- Dedicated support for onboarding
- Continuous support to maximise utilisation
- Comprehensive training materials for taught delivery
- Supportive Quality Assurance process
- Ongoing development and refinement
- Certification and digital badging – evidence of successful completion of modules for a mentor’s CPD records
- Transferrable – a mentor’s learning portfolio is transferable across ITT organisations
Recognised Professional Development
NASBTT is proud to be a Chartered Status CPD Partner, further reinforcing the quality and professional value of the Mentor Development Modules.
Feedback from organisations using the modules highlights their impact, with providers describing the MDMs as a “life-line” for delivering high-quality mentor training and praising both the quality of the resources and the support provided throughout implementation.
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Whether you are looking to enhance existing mentor training, personalise mentor development, or strengthen mentoring provision across your partnership, NASBTT’s Mentor Development Modules provide a flexible, evidence-informed solution.
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