Category Archives: Mentoring

Promising leads for improving teaching

Posted on August 25, 2018 by Clinton Golding

There are many ways to improve teaching, but in my experience when enhancing my own teaching or mentoring other teachers, there are three paths that are most likely to lead to improvement. 1. Covering too much We commonly try to … Continue reading →

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Heartening a disheartened teacher

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Clinton Golding

Sometimes a teacher gets disheartened, jaded or discouraged when they struggle to improve their teaching without result. They might think “I’m just a bad teacher”, “I’ve already tried that”, “Nothing works for my students”, “It’s not my fault”, or “I … Continue reading →

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Mentoring teachers

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Clinton Golding

One of my roles is to mentor other teachers and enable them to improve and enhance their teaching. How do I mentor another teacher (the mentee)? When I reflected on this I realised I went through roughly ten steps. My … Continue reading →

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