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Alistair Lowe, Computer Science teacher at King Edward VII School, reflects on his mentoring of Megan Walker, the Computing Lead at Oughtibridge Primary School My name is Alistair Lowe, and I’m a Computer Science teacher at King Edward VII School … Continue reading →

Rachel Brooke, Senior Mentor, and Celina Tinker, Teacher Mentor, talk about their shared experiences of working together on the Wipro Programme and what they have learned. Rachel and Celina Transcript      

Anthony Wells, Executive Deputy in 2 Lincolnshire schools, talks about his mentoring experience with Richard Pountney, lead for the mentoring strand of the Wipro Programme. Anthony and Richard Transcript Anthony also reflects further on his time on the programme: “Over … Continue reading →

Alongside delivering the Wipro programme for Teacher Fellows and mentors, we are carrying out an internal, formative evaluation.  This plays a key part in our quality assurance of the programme, by helping us to understand participants’ experiences and perceptions, what … Continue reading →

My name is Jason Davis, I’m a Computer Science teacher at Handsworth Grange School, Sheffield. I joined the WIPRO Mentor Programme in January 2019. I first heard about the scheme from my line manager at work. Right away, I was … Continue reading →

The twelve Teacher Fellows participating in the programme this year are from varied backgrounds and subject areas.  At the start of the programme in January, we asked them which areas of their practice they particularly wanted to develop and why. … Continue reading →

Reflections on the first day of our evidence-informed approaches to learning strand from Sultana Begum, Wipro Teacher Fellow The session today was led by Andrea Mapplebeck on the topic of giving effective feedback in the classroom. Most of what we … Continue reading →

On Wednesday 23rd January the first of three webinars of the Wipro took place attended by the Wipro Mentors and members of the project team, Richard Pountney, lead for the Mentor strand of the project, and Emily Perry, project lead. … Continue reading →

Sheffield Hallam Media Centre’s story about our first day together can be found here, with lovely photos of the Teacher Fellows and Mentors, and quotes!  

We’re looking forward to getting started with the Wipro programme in a few days.  We have over twenty teachers – fellows and mentors – joining the first cohort from schools in Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Derbyshire, who teach science, mathematics … Continue reading →