ABSTRACT
This chapter is about the professional needs of physical education (PE) mentors in secondary schools, as perceived by themselves. It is based on research which focuses on secondary school higher education institution (HEI) partnerships and on physical education mentors in particular. The growing body of evidence from this study, other local projects and from national studies by the Office of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools (OHMCIS, 1995b), suggests that much of what we are discovering, in terms of models of practice and continuing professional development needs, can be applied across all subjects and the following areas of teacher pre-service and in-service education:
• secondary school-HEI partnerships; • school-centred schemes (OHMCIS, 1995a); • primary schools (though there are particular issues in primary school
mentoring which are developed by Mick Mawer in his chapters in this book);
• mentoring the newly qualified teacher (or the probationary teacher if the probationary year returns).
