Standard+1.3.2

=Mentor colleagues to ensure that classroom programs and teaching strategies are pedagogically sound and research-based. =

There are only 2 Biology teachers in my school (myself and the pseudonym “Ms Bio”). When my colleague was appointed at the beginning of term 4 2006, I was appointed as her school mentor. KRB has a program where every new member of staff has a mentor appointed, to enable a smooth orientation. The school determined that I am an appropriate [|mentor].

It became clear that my mentee had some deficiencies in her biological and pedagogical knowledge and thus I was asked to maintain the mentoring relationship while encouraging my colleague to expand her repertoire of pedagogical skills.

I found the best way to do this was to collaborate quite closely during the planning stages of topics and assessment tasks.

This [|email trail] typifies the close collaboration we have in order to prepare learning programs and assessment tasks.

We generally meet in order to discuss the characteristics and requirements of the particular task at hand. Often [|notes] are made at this meeting. Often a number of emails will be generated and then a [|document] is sent to me. In this instance the document was emailed to me and I made comments in the various comment boxes on the document. Eventually the final product is complete.