Estimated time required to complete full module: 20 h
Estimated time required to complete unit: 7 h
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Estimated time required to complete unit: 10 h
Personal and professional qualities
As you may have noted from the introductory units, mentorship is not about ‘show and tell’ and ‘giving tips’. A teacher who serves as a mentor teacher must realize that student teachers will need both professional and personal guidance. The mentor teacher will travel the development journey with the student teacher, exploring many scenarios, establishing a collaborative relationship, and learning mutually through reflective dialogue.
The relationship is usually a friendly one, but is not to be confused with a friendship. The aim is to enable the student teacher to develop both personally and professionally.
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What are important attributes of a good mentor teacher? In your journal, write down four key attributes of a good mentor teacher from your perspective. Give a reason for each choice. |
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If you have established a personal learning community (or community of practice), discuss your lists of attributes with each other. Do you have a number of attributes in common? Which different attributes mentioned by others strike you as important? |