If you are working as the school-based history mentor within a partnership scheme in which some elements of your trainee’s subject-specific programme are provided by another partner (most commonly a university tutor, but perhaps a school-based tutor within a local Teaching School) your work should be guided by the partnership programme. Ideally this will be a shared curriculum document, mapped out together by all the history mentors and the tutor(s), setting out the kind of specific input that each is expected to make and agreeing the basic structure of the trainee’s timetable over the course of the year and the focus of any particular school or university-based tasks and assignments. As a brand new mentor you may not have been involved in designing this programme, but it is important to familiarise yourself with it, and to contribute to its development in the light of your experiences and awareness of your trainees’ needs. Read more