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Article: Mentoring new science teachers: a checklist to help mentor teachers assess the teaching skills and knowledge of new science teachers.
- Article from:
- The Science Teacher
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
- Author:
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During the fourth week of school a new teacher comes to you, his assigned mentor, with teaching concerns. You have already watched him teach and know that he has a good grasp of the material, but needs guidance on how to help his struggling class understand science concepts. Meanwhile, another of your mentees is having difficulty controlling the behavior of some students in his class. This second teacher, though familiar with the science material, is unfamiliar with classroom management strategies. Your third mentee, whose primary field is biology, is having difficulty planning lessons for a section of physics she has been scheduled to teach. New science teachers with such ...