TASK 8: Interview your mentor on the roles and responsibilities of a teacher

TASK 8: Interview your mentor on the roles and responsibilities of a teacher

Roles & responsibilities	Questions to ask mentor	Comments
Planning	How do you plan your lessons? Do you differentiate your plans? Do you plan weekly or daily? Do you plan individually or in a group?	She plans each Saturday. She plans each year, month and week. Sometime, she changes the plan for specific days. She plans as a group for the year and month. However, she plans individually for week and days.
Pastoral	How often do you meet parents?	They can come any day they want. Also, the kindergarten does a parents day to come and ask about the level of her child.
Professional Development	What PD do you do?  How often do you have PD?	Every year they have a change. This week I do technology as group and IT. Professional Development once a week.
Class Management	How do you manage your class?  Do you have any problems with class management?  Which classroom rules do you use? Why?	Yes I have, I have with Khadijah problem. She doesn’t listen to me. I give her more work to do it and be quiet a little.
Teaching Strategies	What is your favourite teaching strategy? What important strategies should we follow?	My favourite teaching strategy is singing a song. It’s too important to teach the student.