Growing Great Teachers: Practical Resource Kit for Mentors

Practical tools for meaningful mentoring conversations and professional growth.

Turn mentoring principles into everyday practice with this collection of ready-to-use resources designed for educators, mentors and school leaders.

The Growing Great Teachers: Practical Resource Kit for Mentors provides practical frameworks, structured prompts and interactive planning tools to help mentors build trusting professional relationships, ask powerful questions, set purposeful goals, observe practice, give meaningful feedback and support sustained teacher development.

Grounded in an educative approach to mentoring, the toolkit places the person before the practice. It encourages mentors to move beyond simply offering advice or sharing expertise towards creating the conditions in which teachers can reflect, challenge their thinking, experiment with new approaches and develop greater confidence, capability and professional agency.

Inside the toolkit, you will find practical resources to help you:

• Establish clear expectations and build a strong mentoring partnership.
• Plan purposeful conversations and ask questions that deepen professional thinking.
• Set meaningful goals and identify actionable next steps.
• Structure classroom observations around evidence rather than assumptions.
• Facilitate constructive feedback and reflective dialogue.
• Turn insights into small experiments, professional learning and sustained growth.
• Review progress and strengthen mentoring practice over time.

Whether you are an experienced mentor, a teacher taking on a mentoring role for the first time, or a school leader developing a mentoring programme, these resources can be adapted to your context and used throughout the mentoring cycle.

Less guesswork. More purposeful conversations. Stronger professional growth.

The toolkit complements Growing Great Teachers: A Practical Mentoring Toolkit for Education Leaders, translating its principles into practical resources you can use with teachers and colleagues.

The person before the practice.