The ‘F’ word: conflicts and tensions in a community of practice when mentors confront the possibility of failing a trainee in teaching observations

The central feature of this research focuses on the sensitive stage of trainee assessment made by the mentor on the third and fourth teaching practice observation at the end of stage one of the full-time pre-service PGCE/Cert Ed Initial Teacher Training programmes, which incorporate the Diploma in T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lambert-Heggs, Wendy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Huddersfield Press 2011-01-01
Series:Teaching in Lifelong Learning: A Journal to Inform and Improve Practice
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.5920/till.2011.3129