Training as a mentor in the teaching practice modules

Mentoring in Teaching Practice

Students of the teacher education programme of the North-East Schools' Group receive their education at universities or at higher education institutions of the Schools' Group. In addition, they receive practical training at schools. There, mentors accompany and advise the university students. Teachers can qualify as mentors by completing the training as a mentor in the teaching practice module.

The training programme to become a mentor in the Pädagogisch-Praktische Studien (teaching practice) in the North-East Schools' Group will be available as of the academic year 2017/18. For this purpose, a joint curriculum was prepared that lays the foundations for the offers at the individual sites.

Mentoring in the induction phase

The teaching practice module represents an important phase in the professionalisation of future teachers. In this transition process, mentors, as competent and reflecting practitioners, have the special task of supporting university students in working on and organising complex educational and teaching situations professionally.

The establishment of a university course/certificate course "Mentoring: professional support for the start of a career" meets the need for mentors for students in the pedagogical-practical studies of the teaching post for secondary level general education in the North-East School Group or the teaching post for the primary level at the university colleges of education in the North-East School Group and the need for mentors for young professionals in the induction phase. The positive completion of this university course/certificate course enables you to work as a mentor in the context of practical educational studies and to support young professionals in the induction phase.