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2022 – Haili Hughes – using a cognitive apprenticeship model to make mentoring matter

Teaching and Learning Leeds Conference 2023

• Session choice #4

Workshop facilitator

Haili Hughes

Name of Workshop

Using a cognitive apprenticeship model to make mentoring matter

Who is it for

Mentors

Brief synopsis of workshop:

Cognitive scientists maintain that the context in which learning takes place is critical, so developing novice teachers is less effective when skills and concepts are taught independently of their real-world context and situation.

This workshop will demonstrate how modelling, instructional explanations, metacognition, mental modelling and deliberate practice can support new teachers to master pedagogical skills and make incremental wins towards mastering their craft. Bridging the gap between the research on the cognitive stage, the associative stage, and the autonomous stage, delegates will have a deeper understanding of the way new teachers learn and develop and some practical tips for how they can best facilitate this growth as a mentor.

What you will get out of it:

An understanding of principles of cognitive science and how mentors can use these principles practically to help their mentee make progress in specific aspects of pedagogy.

Profile of facilitator:

For the last fifteen years, Haili Hughes has mentored teachers at all stages of their careers and now oversees the mentoring provision as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sunderland. Alongside this, Haili works as Head of Education at IRIS Connect, where she helps to research and create professional development opportunities for teachers using video technology, working with some of the biggest education organisations in the UK.

She is currently a fourth-year Doctoral candidate at Glasgow University and a freelance education journalist who regularly writes for education publications worldwide. Her books, ‘Mentoring in Schools,’ ‘Preserving Positivity’ and ‘Humans in the Classroom’ have all received fantastic reviews and she is now working on two titles for Crown House and Routledge.

Haili speaks at several schools and colleges a week and regularly speaks at conferences and events UK wide and runs her own local BrewEd events, as well as her own national mentoring conference, MentorEd.

Twitter

@HughesHaili