Future-focused mentoring: A Pilot Study

In 2022, the IFfM team piloted the FfM approach with 6 independent schools and 31 teachers made up of early career teachers and their mentors across Queensland and New South Wales.

An approach underpinned by key pillars of personal potential, powerful partnerships, and possibilities for practice (Larsen et al., 2023), participants were supported to develop their understanding of mentoring as an active and inherently non-hierarchical process and their skills to engage in genuine and rich mentoring conversations.

Participation involved engagement in online professional learning that highlighted the role of intellectual virtues as the driver for deep learning within the simple 3 R: Reflect, Reimagine, and Realise structure. This professional learning was followed by contextualised implementation.

Piloting a new approach to teacher mentoring (teachermagazine.com)