Sets out to examine five school‐based initial teacher training
schemes and to assess the most successful aspects of each. Aims in
particular to investigate the ways in which student teachers are
encouraged and assisted systematically to reflect on their practice. All
those interviewed (student teachers, mentors and university tutors)
recognized reflection as a crucial component of the mentoring process
for structuring the analysis of teaching, but considered it a complex
and challenging activity. Mentors lacked confidence in their ability to
analyse and make explicit their implicit theories of teaching.
Furthermore, they were inhibited by a lack of training, the time
available and by the absence of a collaborative and supportive working
environment. Learning to teach undoubtedly involves the mastery of
reflective practice in which teaching performance is developed
simultaneously with thinking about teaching.
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