Student Teacher Feedback: Tips for Mentor Teachers
Being a mentor for a student teacher is a very important job. You have many responsibilities when you are a mentor. If you aren’t sure where to start, you are in the right place. I have some tips and resources for you!
This is the seventh in a series of posts about mentoring a student teacher. Keep checking back for more tips and resources.
Mentoring a Student Teacher Topics
- Part 1: Preparing for your Student Teacher
- Part 2: Introducing your Student Teacher
- Part 3: Releasing Responsibilities to your Student Teacher
- Part 4: Communicating with your Student Teacher
- Part 5: Planning with your Student Teacher
- Part 6: Observing your Student Teacher
- Part 7: Giving Feedback to your Student Teacher
- Part 8: Grading Tips for your Student Teacher
- Part 9: Reflecting with your Student Teacher
- Part 10: Thanking your Student Teacher
Student Teacher Feedback: Lesson Planning
Your feedback needs to be honest and you need to clearly give your student teacher ideas on how to improve.
Student Teacher Feedback: Be Positive!
Try to give your student teacher positive feedback in addition to things he/she needs to work on. He/she needs to know that she is doing things well and not what he/she needs to improve on.
Your student teacher needs to know he/she is making progress and should continue doing certain things.
Use the sandwich method to help you be positive – provide a positive, something to change, and another positive. This helps you focus on the positives.
Student Teacher Feedback: Types of Feedback
After my student teacher is finished teaching her lesson, I make sure to encourage her to provide her own feedback. I want to know what she think went well and what she wants to work on.
Does she want me to watch how she phrases her questions?
Maybe she wants me to give specific feedback on her timing.
Go ahead! Give your student teacher some positive feedback, ask some questions that encourage reflection, and bring out the best in your student teacher!
