Growing As A Mentor

This experience has taught me some important things that I will always remember and reflect on during my teaching career. This class has helped to reinforce why learning is a life-long process. Being a mentor to a new teacher is very rewarding because I am helping to guide my mentee in the beginning years of her career. This experience has involved me being a role model for my mentee as well as the two of us working together as partners sharing information and knowledge. While going through this process with her, it has allowed me to grow, learn, and become a better teacher. I not only helped her, but she has helped me as well. We have worked very well together as a team and created a lasting friendship. I feel that we both learned from each other. I can look back now and reflect on many of our conversations regarding a bad day she was having. I often reminded her that we all have days like that even after many years in the classroom.