The mentor teacher has a significant impact on the learning process of the student teachers and serves as a vital role model and mentor for them. Assuming they have no other option, student instructors frequently follow the methods of their mentor teachers, sometimes blindly.

However, we encourage you to have ongoing discussions with your student teachers about your practice and to support them in thinking for themselves, asking questions, and sharing their observations with you about your practice and classroom. They should also feel free to suggest and try out new strategies and methods that they may have learned that you may not be familiar with.

We suggest that you gradually give student instructors more responsibility in the classroom until they are able to work as teaching partners with you as they get to know you, your classroom, and your students. Your student teacher does not need, nor should you, take over your classroom.

We anticipate that you will collaborate well with one another to provide your students with opportunity for individualized attention as well as rich education. The pupils gain the most when the relationship between the mentor teacher and the student teacher is successful.

You will undoubtedly remember that there is exhilaration as well as fear during this student teaching experience. We want you to guide and assist your student instructors in addition to providing them with instruction.

In close collaboration with university coaches, mentor teachers assist student teachers in setting short- and long-term objectives, evaluating what works and what doesn't, and gaining the ability to reflect on and learn from experience. In addition to offering constructive criticism, mentor instructors are expected to support, acknowledge, and celebrate professional development.

Our aim is to make sure that both you and the student teacher benefit from having a student teacher in your classroom. We believe that having discussions with our coaches will give you a better understanding of your work and that working with our student instructors will provide capacity in ways that will help you do more than you could have on your own.

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