This is my final post for my Intern semester with my mentor teacher at TCMS. The relationship I've developed with my mentor teacher has been one that has continuously grown stronger. I still feel as though I'm benefiting from my experiences, my host teacher's instructions and suggestions, and everyday lessons in the classroom. Our relationship has been a very natural, guiding one; it's mimicked the saying that the instructor should help guide the student to making his/her own discoveries. I feel that my mentor teacher has always been there to guide me through experiences, allowed me to make my way through them, and then met me at the end to reflect and evaluate with me. I hope I've been able to provide my mentor teacher benefits as well. For example, my knowledge of 21st century tools seems to have been a positive learning experience in the classroom this semester.
The next semester, though I won't be in the classroom as often, I hope to maintain this relationship. I have kept all of the information, suggestions, resources, etc. that my mentor teacher has been kind enough to show me; I'll one day be able to use these in my own planning and classroom.
