Developing clinical judgement: the mentor perspective

Clinical judgement develops from processes of gathering and analysing data to diagnose learning needs in order to undertake an intervention (Kriewaldt & Turnidge, 2013). School-based mentor teachers play a vital role as teacher educators in teacher preparation. In initial teacher education the school mentor specifically develops clinical judgement by taking an inquiring stance with the pre-service teacher to encourage the iterative use of data and evidence to answer questions of practice.