Mentor’s guide: Mentoring practices overview

Effective mentor teachers combine specific practices to help their teacher candidate (TC) learn throughout their clinical experience. These include:

1. Making your thinking explicit,
2. Modeling the work of teaching,
3. Pre-briefing and debriefing,
4. Co-planning with feedback,
5. Co-teaching, and
6. Analyzing student work together.

These six practices form the “core” of the work you’ll do. While there are other valuable types of opportunities that support candidates’ professional learning, the practices described here allow TCs to see and hear what goes into good instruction.

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