5.6 Mentor Teachers

The role of the mentor teacher is to encourage and guide the young trainee. The trainee is to be guided in making lesson plans, and the structuring of objectives in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains is seen as vital. Mentor teachers are expected to first model desirable teaching behaviours and then to allow the trainee to teach under their guidance. Specifically, the mentor teacher is expected to guide the trainee in the following:

· Presentation of a lesson
· Questioning techniques
· Teaching of concepts
· Interpersonal skills
· Strategies in classroom management
· Use of resource materials.
· Methods and uses of evaluation

The mentor teacher is expected to be an exemplar and to encourage the trainee to be one as well. The mentor teacher also has the responsibility of examining and signing the trainee's diary and evaluating the trainee generally.