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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 327 of 327It will definitely be better to have a mentor as it is hard for a person to realize his own short comings. Tiger Woods may be already the best golfer around, but he still need a coach to guide him on the things which is hard for himself to uncover.
In my opinion, having a portfolio mentor will be a great support in helping me complete my portfolio.
The mentor will be able to guide me in the selection of relevant materials to be placed inside and also take the opportunity to share with me his/her teaching experiences and methods which I may adopt.
mentoring is great if it is on the basis of the other party wanting to be involved and not pressed and forced to be in the mentoring position.
A great mentor would be one that inspires me, does not need to have loads of experience, can also be a peer colleague sharing same interest and passion in the particular diploma that you are teaching.
It will help spin off ideas and being of same ranking we can both trade off ideas freely without feeling silly. and give immediate and direct input on situations/ teaching methodology etc....
i think nothing could be worse than to be ASSIGNED a mentor who doesn't even want to be in that position and shares no interest in the subject you are teaching. or one who has no synergy with you at all. I say it should be a portfolio partnership where you look for your own colleague to pair and help review each others portfolio.
It will be good to have a mentor in preparing a portfolio. However, we could also prepare it on our own and get more than one more experienced colleague to comment on it.
1 think 1 would set up my own teaching portfolio by myself. However, this will include feedback by colleagues, supervisors and my own assigned teaching mentors.
I think to begin with, its good to start with individual work portfolio. We will then do a self reflection or improvements once the teaching style has been executed.
In addition, we can also form up a casual group & discuss these portfolios over coffee i.e in a non-formal meeting set up.
On the other hand, a mentor/mentee set up will be too formal & I believe each individual has their own working style to engage their audience & there's no right or wrong answer to this, just improvements...In view of this point, the set up could be replaced by a casual meet ups where the so called 'mentor' could give a constructive feedback by sharing his past experience...
I would like to have a mentor to give some guidance. An experience lecturer will be even more valuable as he/she will be able to guide and give recommendation to your portfolio. That will also shorten your learning curve.
Brad Yeo:
It helps if you have a mentor, like how yoda(star wars) is the master of mentor, always giving valuable tips and hints to any aspiring jedi. I just can't imagine not having "it" in the movie.
This is Adeline Ho.
Unless a mentor is officially assigned for this task, I'm not too sure whether any lecturer will wish to help out due to time constraints. Thus, I would prefer to do it myself and gather any forms of feedbacks from lecturers who've attended my lessons, which not necessarily be the mentor.
A mentor should be one whom I look up to. She or he may not have many years experience, but has a good track record and great passion for teaching
I would think either a non-teaching staff but works in the education areana would be a good mentor. Alternatively someone from edu to help faciliate the mentorship would be good. Maybe even having the Principal :).
It would be good to have a mentor. Considering that most of us are are quite new at this, it would obviously help if there were a guiding hand along the way... The voice of reason in a sense...
I think it will be better for oneself to starts to explore a bit, take ownership and do up our own portfolio.
The mentor could come into the picture later and help to improve on the portfolio.
CHAN YONG JIET GRACE:
RO, mentor, or another peer from the same department. Will inspire more teaching possibilities.
I would approach my RO as they have relevant experience and will provide me with advices and guidance.
Liow Zhengping
A mentor who is an experienced lecturer will be able to provide the guidance and advice to facilitate the portfolio compilation process.
IVAN HO
a mentor would be helpfull in portfolio development and innovation.
I see a teaching portfolio as more of a self-reflection tool so it is more personal. Thus, I would prefer to compile it myself but I approach the senior lecturers for comments when I need them.
You, Mr. Mark Nivan Singh, Sir, are necessary. :)
In general portfolios are highly personalised as it reflects more than just the work materials. However teaching portfolio is something new to me, hence I think initial discussions on understanding what it is and how it is done with a mentor or RO or for that matter with other colleagues should be definitely helpful, but once I initiate developing it, I would prefer to go on to documenting my own journey of self discovery of being a teacher.
Ujjaval Parekh
I wouldn't say a portfolio mentor is necessaary to compile a portfolio but it is good enough should there be other colleagues around to provide their guidance and experience.
I prefer to preprare my portfolio myself. First, it is because im the one who know well my lesson and preparation. By reexamine back the portfolio, i can have some rethink and analysing which aspect I should improve or which aspect i should remove. Maybe when there is problem, we always seek help from our senior. But, I do think that we do not need a particular mentor for the portfolio. Furthermore, it is time consuming to engage in the effort from the other party
Having a mentor would be helpful as it helps one to see one's performance from a more objective viewport.
I think that it will be great to have a mentor to build a teaching portfolio as mentor have more experiences and that will give me more insight. From the mentor, I can have more than my own prespective of things and I can improvise to build a good teaching portfolio.
A mentor is definitely necessary for someone new. I believe more than one mentor will be helpful. He or she can share his/her reflection and give a guidance for our portfolio.
Of course it would be great to have a portfolio mentor, possibly the mentor that has already been assigned to you as there exist a collaborative relationship already.
I do feel though that as in anything, we need to be the ones to drive it and be proactive because even now with my mentor, I feel I am imposing too much if I kept asking on which is which and how to go about things in SP. A lot is self-taught but comes with that is also big risks of making unintended mistakes.
We just need to strike a balance.
I think it's definitely useful to have a mentor. As this is the first time I'm building a teaching portfolio, I believe I can benefit greatly from the experience and wisdom of a senior lecturer or RO, in terms of what to include. It also gives me a greater sense of accountability when it's a collaborative effort.
I'll prefer to compile the portfolio myself as others will not be familiar with my style of workin. However I'kk seek for opinions from more senior lecturers when I need some comments.
-Fang Siong
I prefer a mentor to guide me in the right way to compile the portfolio.
But during the compilation, it would be more of a solo task.
It's definitely useful to have guidance from a mentor or experienced colleague as this is the first time I'm building a teaching portfolio. I believe I could benefit greatly from their experience and wisdom, in terms of what to include in the portfolio. It could also serve as a 'push' factor where the mentor could encourage me to update my portfolio promptly and move me in the correct direction.
From Goh Kok Min
I prefer to have my mentor to guide me in compiling my teaching portfolio.I like to listen to people especially experienced personnel sharing with me
their working or life experience.
Once i have acquired the neccesary skills and knowledge, i will proceed to compile my own teaching portfolio.
It will be great to have mentor(s) who is/are experienced to guide me while preparing a teaching portfolio. He or she can provide guidance and advice along the way.
I think it will be good if you have a mentor that can guide you along.. you can also learn from the mistakes that he/she made..
It will be a good idea to have an experienced lecturer to mentor a new lecturer's teaching portfolio. However, the difficulty is to find a suitable person to take up the mentor role. This said mentor will need to spend the time to help the newbie and is not afraid, or threatened, by sharing thier experiences and advice.
My preference would be to work individually but at the same time approaching my colleagues on the grey areas. It will be a win win situation where i would be "mentored " by many lecturers rather than just one.
Definitely! Portfolio mentors ought to be exprienced educators and most importantly, has been compiling his portfolio all along. Mentorees would then be guided into doing their portfolio correctly and be actively encouraged along the journey.
SP EDU Educators are the best choice as mentors.
A good mentor is like a teacher who more than teaches the mechanics of portfolio preparation, points out the potholes and dangers, but also encourages and disciplines you in the reflective practice.
Ideally whould have a experienced lecturer who can share experience and the way he or she handle the students
I think it's a great idea... A senior to point you at the correct direction would be very helpful.
I think a portfolio mentor is quite important in creating a decent portfolio, mainly because in the early stages of any teacher's career, we will find ourselves thrown in the deep end. Any help is appreciated.
I would like to have the choice to approach a mentor who shares similiar teaching aspirations and belief. Being assigned a random mentor is the worst thing that can happen!!!
certainly an experienced lecturer would be a great mentor who can provide guidance and invaluable advice.
I personally rather do the portfolio myself because I'm the one who is in the classroom and I'm the one who knows what's actually going on! However, I also believe that a good experienced mentor would greatly help by going through the portfolio and provide feedback and comments. The observations from a good mentor would greatly improve our work.
I would prefer not to have a mentor as I think "new generation" teach differently. But for content and procedures, a mentor is definitely needed. I am just hopeful that my "thinking of education" should not be "mentored" in certain ways.
Wales Ong, SB
I'd prefer to compile it myself. However, I will not hesitate to consult other experienced CT trainers and my fellow colleagues if I encounter difficulty during the course of the compilation. - Cheong Kwee Thiam, SMA
I prefer to do it alone but will seek guidance from various experience lecturers in my school. I believe there will be benefits in diverse inputs from various people.
Good to have an experienced mentor as in the process, I am sure we will learn from the mentor.
Jimmy Fan here. I think having a mentor will definitely be useful in providing much needed guidance, especially for newbies in teaching, like myself.
Mentoring has similar qualities to reflective activites such as group discussions, it allows third party to inject valuable advises and comments to help improve one's teaching methods. Certainly it would be an honour to have a portfolio mentor review the reflective activities so as to allow one to shaprpen his or her skills. An expereienced mentor could assist the mentoree to assess the appropriate resources and efficient methods to improve teaching.
I think having mentor would be a better idea. At least you would know what is important and what is not, so that your portfolio would be a more comprehensive one.
Shwu Lan said...
It will be very helpful if a new lecturer can be guided by an expereince mentor in compiling the portfolio.
It will be good if I get to choose my own mentor, someone I consider good enough for me to trust and learn from :>
Perhaps an experienced lecturer from each school can summarize the kind of good portfolio relevant to the course so that we can just read the summary to save time.
Yes. A portfolio mentor is necessary for us to compile a teaching portfolio. Mentoring is an advisory role in which an experienced mentor can provide advices and guides to us to ensure that we are on the right path. A portfolio mentor will hold us accountable for our actions, and help us to think through our goals in teaching, while keeping us focused from the stress of teaching and learning. This will help us to work more efficiently. A portfolio mentor is like a trusted colleague to discuss problems and find solutions towards building my teaching portfolio. Their valuable sound advice from years of experience and guidance would definitely help us to reduce our time wondering of what’s required. A mentor is there to help us on taking our learning to the next level and ultimately to see us succeed in teaching.
I think it would be great if there is someone to guide me along. For someone who had gone through compiling a portfolio would definitely understand what I'm going though and would provide great help.
Yes. A portfolio mentor is necessary for us to compile a teaching portfolio. Mentoring is an advisory role in which an experienced mentor can provide advices and guides to us to ensure that we are on the right path. A portfolio mentor will hold us accountable for our actions, and help us to think through our goals in teaching, while keeping us focused from the stress of teaching and learning. This will help us to work more efficiently. A portfolio mentor is like a trusted colleague to discuss problems and find solutions towards building my teaching portfolio. Their valuable sound advice from years of experience and guidance would definitely help us to reduce our time wondering of what’s required. A mentor is there to help us on taking our learning to the next level and ultimately to see us succeed in teaching.
I think is essence to have a mentor who is experienced and also able to guide and teach us the most appropiate way of correct teaching. I believe the older generation lecturer would have their own set of teaching skillset that shoudl impart to the younger generations. in fact, is a combination both young and old lecturer would be able to learn from one another.
The other alternative would be our SP's library should collate all teaching portfolios from experienced lecturer to share their vaulable knowlegde across the schools. In this way we might be able to invent a new style of teaching method series for everyone to learn and adopt accordngly.
jessica -
yes definitely a mentor is good.
he/she can help provide thoughts and ideas and guidance which is only possible with years of teaching experience.
he/she does not have to be your own RO, as long as they have the heart to really guide the younger teacher along
It is important that we have a mentor for our teaching portfolio.
I don’t think its wise to assign one particular person to be our mentor. I personally feel that the more senior lecturers that I share my portfolio with, the greater depth of knowledge and reflection I will receive.
I would definitely choose collaboration for accountability. For someone new, it would help to have a mentor to help to prevent any gaps in the preparation of a teaching portfolio. Experience always counts! For someone with inadequate time management skills, it helps to have someone to provide some discipline to such a person. For someone who thinks he knows everything, a fresh pair of trusted eyes may provide much needed breakthrough and insight on ineffective practices.
I would prefer to have a portfolio mentor for a start, for advise, guide and cross checking.
It would be great to have an experienced lecturer (from the same course/ RO) as a mentor to guide the building of a teaching portfolio as he/she will be able to give invaluable pointers quickly. This will definitely save time for the newbie who may otherwise need to spend some time "groping in the dark". But finding a mentor who has time to guide will be a challenge as most lecturers are always very busy.
I think it takes a bit of faith to jump into it yourself first. You have to sometimes believe in your on intuition. Then let a mentor look it over. There will be refinements brought in. Having a mentor come in too early will make the experience too constricted. I'm sure there are several facets that we could show of ourselves that another person has not known of ourselves, so it's good to explore on our own first.
Definitely a mentor would be beneficial as I have also been a better student when i learn from others and giving credence to that saying, "ain't no man is an island, chile". being a social creature a regular interaction will feed my curiosity and enhance my awareness of what has been tried, tested and what can be improved on not only from my own teaching methods but also that from others. the trick would be to find someone who is as generous with their time and experience as you need them to be... any takers?
As a new lecturer, it is good to have a mentor to provide guidance and advice for teaching aspect.
Agnes Tan said....
Well, two is better than one. Personally I find a good mentor is more precious than gold! His/her presence not only helps to guide, to lead, give constructive advice, fresh insight, useful input so on and so forth. Can I request for a mentor? Hahaha!
Yes, please. Having a mentor (RO/FL) would be great. A point-in-the-right-direction for anything is never a bad thing. What an individual feel is correct or an improvement may not necessarily be so.
Having a mentor will clearly guide us along the way. After all, he/she been through much than what we new educators have. Surely his/her experience can give up insight of education.
Having said that, we our own selves should be critical and judgmental.
Yes.Having a mentor is always great and helpful. A person tends to have a bias thinking towards what he/she can understand from self-learning. An experienced mentor can enlighten him/her with deep and realistic insight.
Ye Wei said:
I think having a mentor is a great idea as there are definitely a lot of things and procedures that I do not know. In addition, a mentor can also help me in identifying the areas that are in need of improvements.
I opine that it is always good to be guided and mentored by seniormost experts for their experience could speak a thousand words by itself. However due care and concern have to be taken into account that not all could be carved on stone as Gospel truth for subjective experience of each individual could vary and probably result in a biased deduction. Hence I believe that instead of just one mentor, it would be good if we could have at least three so as to weight upon the experiences shared and value-add on the final conclusion on any one matter.
I think it is important to have a mentor to oversee and assist in my portfolio compilation as corroboration is key and it make sense to learn from more senior and experienced teachers/lecturers about what I am doing effectively or not. Although, for the sake of efficiency, I would much rather prefer to work on it alone, I think it will only be a meaningful and useful exercise only when there is feedback and constructive criticism.
- Julian Kwok
Fayth:
I think it will be good to have a mentor, someone that is willing to guide, open to be disturb. In this case, i already found my acedemic mentor a good portfolio mentor. she often sharing her experience, and helping me thru. Of cos, having a mentor is one thing,having a dictator is another. Style may be different, so finding a mentor whose style you can adopt or modify in such a way that you are comfortable with.
It would definitely be beneficial to have an RO or mentor be my teaching portfolio mentor. They are the best persons with great experience to share and also advise on my portfolio. I also am a firm believer in group portfolio discussion which will give a broader perspective and updates on current pedagogy techniques.
A portfolio mentor would be highly beneficial to give me guidance and ideas for the teaching portfolio, based on his/her experiences.
Yes to mentor so that they can challenge and guide us through to have better and fresher ideas on how to have a facelift for teaching.
Mentor can be anyone young or older who loves teaching.
yes definitely. I have a teaching mentor in my school and she is of great help to me. She guided me through a lot related to teaching. I'm sure without her help I will be at loss. Same for teaching portfolio.
I think a portfolio mentor is definitely helpful is for me to compile a portfolio. The reason is a portfolio mentor can provide useful suggestions from a third party point of view. It is quite often that the person who directly involved in the work may easily overlooked the importance of certain document or information to be included in the portfolio.
I will prefer to work with an experienced lecturer as a mentor for my portfolio. A mentor will be able to guide me as well as provide tips on what to include in the portfolio.
It's definitely good to have a portfolio mentor to provide guidance in how to go about doing it. Especially so if the mentor is well experienced and willing to share his/ her experiences thoroughout the years of teaching.
Also, if the mentor can share his/ her portfolio as reference, it will be very helpful.
It would be nice to have a portfolio mentor. In any case, the material to be included in the teaching portfolio will be gathered by myself. The mentor need not be the same person; I may enlist the help of various suitable persons for different modules, for example.
I would prefer to compile it myself as different people has their own style of teaching. Sometimes, it would be hard to adopt other's teaching style.
Joe Ong
There is no right or wrong for these. As mentor will be able to provide you his/her experience in term of teaching skill. To shorten your learning curve.
However your mentor skill may not be suitable to for to apply as you are not your mentor. You may have another style of delivering your lesson. Thus for me it good to have a starting point and learn from your mentor however to do copy wholesale of his/her experiment but abstract out skill and information that will aid me in term of delivering my lesson.
my seniors (everyone is as of now... haha) are my mentors, in the broadest possible sense of the word.
But I am of the opinion that my students, at the end of the term, will be the best mentor.
I have learnt what works to some degree....
I would like mentors evaluating different aspects such technical knowledge, body language , teaching style etc.
Gail Goh says:
Definitely it would be good if the portfolio can be prepared in a group as this will allow for the sharing of information, practices and experiences. Having a mentor or a colleague who is able to share their experiences would definitely aid greatly in the preparation of the teaching portfolio.
I would do it myself but draw on comments from colleagues during informal discussions. Reason being, I would not like to stick to one mentor over worries that I might be taking up his time.
Ideally, it'll be good to have a 'Portfolio Mentor' as a source of referral and guidance, but only at a specific point of time or whenever assistance is required.
The mentor should act as a guide during the duration of compiling the portfolio as it ensures that the portfolio compiled is relatively accurate and refined.
In the end, the portfolio should reflect our personal teaching direction and not someone else's.
A mentor will be helpful to guide us as we are building the portfolio. When we become experienced educators, we can be the mentors to help future newbies too.
A mentor would be good to help directing to the correct direction and also to share his experiences.
Shawn Lim
it would be good to have mentor guiding on the portfolio but it may be difficult to get a mentor since everyone is busy with their own thing.
I like to have a mentor to help me to create portfolio. He can be share his experienced, nature of our students in order to get right portfolio, especially for new lecturer like me.
Knowing me, my portfolio would probably be a little self-indulgent, focusing on my own areas of interest and my strengths. I think I'd be better off with a mentor helping with my teaching portfolio, to ensure that I scrutinise with equal effort those parts of my teaching that I'm weak at, and to provide perspective so that I don't miss out areas or gloss over things.
I'm not sure who to pick, though - I'd naturally prefer someone who operates on my wavelength, and has more than a nodding familiarity with the kind of material that I'm teaching, too.
Kher Hsin-
I find that having a mentor for teaching portfolio is important as he/she could give valuable feedback and guidance for improvement.
I feel that it is essential to have a mentor to guide me in the portfolio. This is because firstly, this is the first time I am doing a teaching portfolio. Secondly, with the guidance from the mentor, I can organize my teaching portfolio better for future reference, both for myself and for others too. With an organized portfolio with the necessary information and reflection inside, I will feel more confident and all these will need to come from the guidance of the experienced mentor.
Experienced, having wide knowledge of teaching instruments, evolving with latest developments, and willing to share. Such mentor will be very effective in opening up the mindset of new lecturers, getting them on track and move forward with a fast pace.
As a new lecturer, I think it will be great to have a portfolio mentor to guide me in the compilation of my portfolio. I can approach my portfolio mentor for any related questions and he/she can guide me to prepare my portfolio effectively and efficiently.
I'd rather prepare the teaching portfolio by myself and only seek advice or suggestions from RO or more experienced lecturers from time to time since I found out other lecturers in SP are often occupied with all sorts of work and responsibilities.
I think I'll prepare the teaching portfolio myself but I'll seek advice from my teaching mentor.
It is good to have a good mentor when preparing the portfolio as he/she can provides guidance and shares the experiences that he/she has gained over the years.
It will be great to have a mentor at first. The mentor can provide guidance and suggestion.
Jeffrey xu
i would rather have slightly senior colleuge helping me with the compliation rather than a senior mentor.
The main reason is that the senior mentor due to his years of experiences might under estimate the problem i might be facing.
Therefore i rather approach someone which have at least two or three years teaching expeience to guide me along.
At the end othe compliation I will still be approaching a senior staff to oversee the entire portfolio.
I think it'll be great to have a portfolio mentor, not to provide a step-by-step guide, but to discuss topics with. As a more experienced educator, the mentor may be able to debunk some assumptions and misconceptions that I have.
I believe it would be good to have a portfolio mentor to provide guide for us to complete this task. If I were to get one mentor, he must have some teaching method that I am interested to incorporated into my teaching portfolio.
Lee Martin:
I would rather compile a portfolio myself. I think a portfolio for the purpose of reflective practice is a personal thing to aid my own reflection though processes. For guidance on teaching practice one can turn to a colleague, or better many colleagues, for their opinions but ultimately we must feel comfortable with methods and actions we choose. The reflective practice teaching portfolio would be like a snapshot of our reflective thoughts with examples of lesson plans, activities, and methods that we have used and seen to work together with things we tried and failed at. In each case, one might write a short passage about why that item is in the portfolio as a reminder to ourselves of our conclusions.
A portfolio with the aim of finding a new job might look different to one used for reflective practice. In this case, the input of a senior colleague who has been responsible for hiring decisions would be helpful
An experienced mentor would be good, but I'm not sure how many experienced lecturers here would have the time!
The inputs from an experienced mentor is certainty valuable as it provides deeper insights on the strength and weaknesses of the portfolio.
yes, a good mentor is certainly can give valuable advice and guidance. He or she can certainly identify area that I may have overlooked.
It will be good to have a mentor especially one who is more experienced so that he/she can guide you in compiling the portfolio. However, the mentor must be experienced with new pedagogies and methods inorder for the mentorship to be effective.
Mentor, definitely.
We might not realise that there are blind spots in the way we are compiling them. I believe that even simply the structure of a portfolio alone can show us where we may have overlooked during our reflection.
It is definitely good to have a experienced mentor because of the guidance and advice will keep me on track.
It will be good to have a portfolio mentor especially when we are starting to put together a portfolio. Of course, that mentor needs to be experienced so that we learn the right tools. After that, compiling it can be done on our own.
it is good to have an experience lecturer acting as a mentor to guide us in creating the portfolio, to maintain the consistency. It also provide a 3rd person perspective to help us in staying on track while creating the portfolio
Preparing a collaborative portfolio is good. Mentors can provide valuable insights in addition to reflective teaching.
However, it is important not to stifle creativity. :)
Maybe not a mentor. But a working team comprising lecturers of different background.
It is definitely a good idea to have a mentor to guide me along when I am putting together the teaching portfolio.
The mentor has to have past experience in the education system, and is aware of the range of available resources.
Hence, a mentor is able to guide me on the peculiarities of the education system and advise on the teaching methodologies which works and those that don't.
May Lim
As a newbie, it's definitely good to have someone experienced to share and guide through the construction of a portfolio. My definition of a mentor is someone I can share and talk to freely, more of like a "buddy", not so much mentor mentee.
It is better if I can seek help from portfolio mentors during the preparation.
I think it will be good to have some form of guidance from a mentor, but the bulk of the work should come from us. That is, we should work independently to put together the portfolio and only consult our mentor when we are stuck or in need of clarification.
Lina:
Definitely useful to have a mentor to provide feedback to the new lecturers, particularly for those who are teaching for the first time.
Su Huiping:
I would prefer to do the folio myself, but gain insights from academic mentor ;reason being everyone is so busy here I don't think they have time to sit down to go through the folio with me!
I think a mentor has some usefulness in that you can cross-check your portfolio and receive honest critique. I wouldn't depend on them for the structure or first iteration, but would call on them to refine the structure, spot holes or mistakes, edit out unnecessary content etc.
For a new lecturer to kick start his or her portfolio, having an experienced academic mentor would be very helpful. The mentor can provide specific guidance to the lecturer, for example, which aspect should he or she starts with, what could be his or her strength and weaknesses, so that things can be properly tackled. However, there are certain portions of the portfolio which should be written by the owner himself or herself, especially portion when honest feedback and responses are required for future references or actions needed for improvement.
It will be helpful if an experienced academic mentor can guide and give his/her honest feedback to help us improve on our teaching portfolio. Having said that, I believe most of the work done should still be individual. The mentor only plays the role of refining and suggesting ways to improve our portfolio.
I think experienced mentor is useful for making the teaching portfolio more objective. But the mentor needs to be very open minded and direct. I think the first teaching portfolio will rely more on our own effort through trials and conclusions.
A teaching portfolio mentor is very important as it is one of the ways of launching one's teaching career in a focused and directed path. It is akin to be walking behind the master's footstep - and may the mentor be a good and worthy one to take references from.
I think have an experienced mentor will be very helpful as he/she can provide guidance for the new lecturer.
This will prevent the new lecturer from feeling lost in his/her teaching. It also allow the new lecturer to gain confident in teaching as he/she has learn the role of teaching.
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