Listed below are the best practices you should demonstrate
while mentoring your student teacher.
For additional guidance, check out: Cooperating Teachers’ Best Practices for Mentoring #1: Supporting Cooperating Teachers
while mentoring your student teacher.
For additional guidance, check out: Cooperating Teachers’ Best Practices for Mentoring #1: Supporting Cooperating Teachers
Social Support
- Communicate regularly and openly
- Encourage and support their efforts.
- Pay attention to their:
- Mindset
- Attitude
- Well-being
- Provide weekly feedback on performance and progress in an uninterrupted setting
Read more on how to implement best practices for mentoring for Social Support → Cooperating Teachers’ Best Practices for Mentoring #2: Social Support
- Encourage and support their efforts.
- Pay attention to their:
- Mindset
- Attitude
- Well-being
- Provide weekly feedback on performance and progress in an uninterrupted setting
Read more on how to implement best practices for mentoring for Social Support → Cooperating Teachers’ Best Practices for Mentoring #2: Social Support
Professional Support
- Use observational data during feedback sessions
- Encourage them to take the lead in evaluating their teaching
Introduce them to the school community
- Help them develop and maintain a positive view on teaching
- Share effective approaches of for:
- Managing reporting
- Administrative aspects of teaching
- Building relationships with administration, teachers, and staff
Read more on how to implement best practices for mentoring for Professional Support → Cooperating Teachers’ Best Practices for Mentoring #3: Professional Support
- Encourage them to take the lead in evaluating their teaching
Introduce them to the school community
- Help them develop and maintain a positive view on teaching
- Share effective approaches of for:
- Managing reporting
- Administrative aspects of teaching
- Building relationships with administration, teachers, and staff
Read more on how to implement best practices for mentoring for Professional Support → Cooperating Teachers’ Best Practices for Mentoring #3: Professional Support
Role Modeling
- Involve them in your roles as an agriculture teacher
- Talk to them about becoming an excellent teacher throughout their career
- Share your philosophy and approaches for SAE development and supervision, as well as FFA advising
- Discuss student discipline
- Share strategies on maintaining a productive learning environment in the classroom and the lab
- Coach them on strategies for developing and maintaining professional rapport with students
Read more on how to implement best practices for mentoring for Professional Support → Cooperating Teachers’ Best Practices for Mentoring #4: Role Modeling
- Talk to them about becoming an excellent teacher throughout their career
- Share your philosophy and approaches for SAE development and supervision, as well as FFA advising
- Discuss student discipline
- Share strategies on maintaining a productive learning environment in the classroom and the lab
- Coach them on strategies for developing and maintaining professional rapport with students
Read more on how to implement best practices for mentoring for Professional Support → Cooperating Teachers’ Best Practices for Mentoring #4: Role Modeling
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The following graphic helps focus your feedback communication with your student teacher.
The following graphic helps focus your feedback communication with your student teacher.
