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Student Teacher Mentorship Essay

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Student teacher mentoring during teaching practice (TP) plays an important role as a quality assurance mechanism in teacher development programmes. However, a number of challenges are encountered during this practicum attachment phase. Some of these emanate from lecturers, mentors, mentees themselves and the system of teacher training. Maintenance of perceived quality in teacher training needs constant evaluation and assessment. This mixed qualitative and quantitative naturalistic single case study evaluates student teacher mentorship at Mkoba Teachers College in light of quality in the TP exercise. Questionnaires, focus group discussions, interviews and observations were administered to purposefully selected informants. Practitioners in both the schools and the college need to uphold mentorship principles that …show more content…

o Avail synergies of recognition and incentivisation of mentors in schools.

 Mkoba Teachers College should; o Arrange awareness workshops constantly and consistently with all the schools where they deploy their students for TP to enlighten the mentors and school administrations on proper mentorship practices and to foster the philosophy of unhuism/ubuntuism as the moral backing underlying successful mentorship. o Avail modules, handouts with sample lesson plans and schemes, and circulars to schools on mentorship and assessment criteria and expectations so that the college and the schools speak the same language in relation to mentorship. o Increase the number of TP visits to schools per term. o Empower mentors in schools by awarding them certificates of merit after engaging them in mentorship sessions that may/may not call for tuition to meet such

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