Developing your Mentor

Draw a chart with 3 columns.

Make a list in the left hand column of about 8 skills that learners need in order to achieve on a learning programme that you teach.  These can be subject related or generic, e.g. research skills. 

In the middle column, list 6 – 8 things that, in your experience, learners find most difficult in learning your subject. 

Finally, reflect on your answers and, in the right hand column, identify strategies that could be used to help learners to address these difficulties and to rehearse and develop their knowledge and skills.

In order to complete this task successfully you should:

1. list at least FOUR skills needed for success in your subject area
2. identify the key areas of difficulty likely to be experienced by learners in developing these
3. outline strategies you or other teachers have used to address these difficulties