Quality Approved Mentor Training

The Quality Approved Mentor Training badge provides learners with a comprehensive understanding of best practices for mentoring a student optician, including guiding the process of mentoring a student optician in dispensing eyeglasses and contact lenses, as well as adhering to professional practices. The badge will also provide learners information on how to: -Provide constructive feedback, encouraging reflection and growth -Model professional behaviour, ethical decision making, patient care and standards of professionalism -Assess and evaluate students' progress to meet the NACOR competencies -Actively involve the student in dispensing eyeglasses and contact lenses, providing step-by-step instruction while ensuring safety and accuracy These actions would showcase the recipient’s mastery of mentoring practices and their ability to guide the student in both technical and professional aspects of the field.