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Quality Support Centre, Steve and Little, Brenda (1995). Signposts for staff development (2): workplace mentors. Developing students' subject area knowledge and skills in the workplace; Quality Support Centre, London.
Abstract
The study guide is designed as a resource to be used in the setting up and running of staff development for mentors. It provides a basis for analysing the function of work-based learning (WBL) within a programme of learning and hence the role of mentoring in supporting this learning and goes on to show the kinds of staff development possible and available through texts, training sessions and self-help groups and provides organisers of mentor training with information about both generic and subject specific materials and approaches. It is not a training manual. It provides an overview of training materials and approaches to assist in the design of programmes tailored to the needs of mentors in specific higher education (HE) contexts.
The available training materials for mentors and for organisers of mentoring schemes are plentiful and we have narrowed the field to staff development for people mentoring specific vocational diploma and degree students both in terms of general materials and materials and approaches relating specifically to the following four broad subject areas which have contrasting needs.
- technologies and applied science subjects
- helping and caring disciplines
- creative art and design disciplines
- business and management disciplines.
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