The Tracker

From this week, please could beginning teachers and mentors ensure they review some parts of the Tracker at each Weekly Review Meeting. It is not practical to review the entire document each week, but those parts that relate to the FIA and other targets should be reviewed.

Mentor Development Tasks

This months activity to support mentors in their development is now available on the Mentor Development Tasks page.

Mentors are reminded to update their mentor log should they complete this activity.

Reminders

• Planning: Further guidance on planning lessons and evaluating them, can be found in this update.
• Job Interviews: Beginning teachers are entitled to up to three days’ absence for interviews and time to visit schools should be taken carefully. Further guidance can be found in this update.
• University Tutor Visits: These continue this week. Further guidance can be found here.
• Lesson Observations: We continue to encourage mentors to note the time of each teaching moment during the lesson observation on the form. See this update for more guidance.
• Formal lesson observations: must be video recorded on the university iPads. Further details can be found on this page.
• Delayed Debrief: A reminder for mentors that there is no longer a formal approach. Further details are in this post.
• PDAs: Beginning teachers should continue with these activities found in the PDJ.
• Please could all mentors and beginning teachers ensure they have read and are familiar with the contents of the Primary Entitlement Document. Thank you.