Click on the atoms to find out more about each of the models of mentorship
Apprenticeship model
The facilitator is a skilled crafts person, the learner learns by re-enacting their actions.
Competence model
The practice facilitator enables the learner to learn specific practice objectives, and assesses their competence in carrying these out.
Team mentoring model
A team of facilitators support one or more learners jointly. The concept is very like team supervision.
Contract model
This is formal facilitation that is time or objectives-restricted, for example a learner may be on a placement visit to another institution.
Pseudo-mentoring model
Sometimes described as quasi or partial supervision, this approach may only occur for a specific task i.e. dissertation supervision.
