Developing beginning teachers’ understanding of knowledge and skills in the RE curriculum

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in [Mentoring Religious Education teachers in the secondary school: A practical guide] on [date of publication], available online: https://www.routledge.com/Mentoring-Religious-Education-Teachers-in-the-Secondary-School-A-Practical/Sheehan/p/book/9781032042442This book helps mentors working with beginning teachers of religious education to develop their own mentoring skills, and to provide the essential guidance their mentee needs as they navigate the rollercoaster of their first years in the classroom. Offering tried and tested strategies, it covers the knowledge, skills and understanding every mentor needs. Practical tools offered include approaches for developing subject knowledge and lesson planning, as well as guidance for the effective use of pre- and post-lesson discussion, observations and target setting to support beginning religious education teachers