mentorship

This semester, I really enjoy working with my mentor teacher. It was the first semester that I have ever been with a male teacher and really enjoyed getting a chance to both observe and work with him. He is a great teacher with an excellent sense of humor and character. He has a great relationship with all of his students and can easily joke around with them, while maintaining their respect. As a mentor teacher to me, he has been very helpful in every way possible. He is always available to help me prepare, brainstorm and implement lessons and is always giving me new ideas. He also was very helpful through the process of the action research. He not only helped me to implement my ideas, but also worked with me to create some of the quizzes together to ensure that we had covered everything. He is a great role model and the definition of the teacher that I hope to become in the future.

To ensure that the mentoring relationship was beneficial to both of us, I offered ideas and my opinions as much as possible as he did the same with me. He often asked for my opinion on different things and after each of his lessons goes over areas that went well and areas he would change. This allowed me to get an idea of what types of things can go wrong during lessons and what to be prepared for in the future. I really enjoyed working with my mentor teacher this semester.