The purpose of this paper is to illustrate a way in which your mentor should provide opportunities for you as a newly qualified teacher (NQT) to engage in the spiral process of evaluation, reflection and review as a means of achieving continuous professional development. The role of your mentor in this approach is to provide these opportunities in order to enable reflection to take place, in turn facilitating your progress as a NQT from one ‘phase’ of development to the next.
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