Supporting newly qualified teachers in schools
Course details
This course reimagines the school as a thriving professional learning community where newly qualified teachers (NQTs) and their more experienced colleagues learn with and from each other. It specifically focuses on how support teachers and school-based mentors can utilise their own professional learning to support NQTs as they embark on their teaching career.
The course develops key mentoring competencies, such as active listening, effective questioning, goal setting, providing feedback, and fostering reflective practice, and is suitable for both new and experienced mentors.
It begins with an introductory live webinar on approaches to mentoring across Europe and globally. The modules then focus on areas such as the foundations of mentoring (purpose and impact; building relationships; effective communication), supporting professional growth (lesson observations; giving constructive feedback; action planning) and creating a supportive culture for mentoring (curriculum considerations, inclusion, working with key stakeholders).
The course’s interactive, structured format offers space to reflect, share experiences, and deepen understanding through engagement with evidence-informed literature and policy. As a participant, you will model reflective tools such as image elicitation, value mapping and mirror moments, alongside wellbeing practices such as check-in circles, energy audits and creating a personalised wellbeing toolkit.
The course is offered by the European School Education Platform. Visit our website for more information.
Duration and workload
Start date: Monday 20 October 2025
End date: Wednesday 26 November 2025
Duration: 5 weeks
Workload: 15-20 hours
Course competences
The course content and activities have been mapped against the competences defined by the European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators and the SELFIE for TEACHERs tool. Once ready, these competences will be displayed here.
For more information about the competences and associated proficiency levels see the SELFIE for TEACHERs toolkit.Target audience
TARGET AUDIENCE
Learning objectives
- Develop and apply effective mentoring competencies by practicing structured simulations, planning lesson observations and collaboratively analysing real-world mentoring scenarios.
- Explore ways to facilitate the professional growth of NQTs while deepening your own practice through guided self-reflection activities and professional planning exercises.
- Design and implement wellbeing strategies for both yourself and NQTs by creating personalised toolkits, conducting energy audits and applying evidence-based approaches in real-life situations.
- Promote a culture of professional learning within your schools by engaging in collegial dialogue, sharing research-informed insights, and exchanging experience with peers.
Offered by
This content is offered by the European Commission. The European Commission is the European Union's politically independent executive arm. It is alone responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation, and it implements the decisions of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.
Schedule
- How this course works
- Module 1: The foundations of mentoring
- Module 2: Supporting professional growth
- Module 3: A supportive culture for mentoring
- Module 4: Final activity
- Certificate of completion
